Broken markup in tar.1 manual page

[Eric S. Raymond]

tar.1 has the following error codes in my database of manpage glitches:

C Broken command synopsis syntax. This may mean you're using a
 construction in the command synopsis other than the standard
 [ ] | { }, or it may mean you have running text in the command synopsis
  section (the latter is not technically an error, but most cases of it
 are impossible to translate into DocBook markup), or it may mean the
 command syntax fails to match the description.

V Missing body content in list trips up doclifter and is likely to
 cause rendering problems in non-troff viewers. I have been able to fill
 in what was missing except for what should be under TAR_LONGLINK_100.

A fix patch is attached.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for the patch. I noticed the attachement was not flagged as a patch, so I checked the patch flag for it.

Also, based on `dpkg -L tar` it looks like the manpage is part of the tar package, not tar-doc. I took the liberty of moving this report to that package.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "Fix patch for markup errors" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

[This is an automated message performed by a Launchpad user owned by ~brian-murray, for any issues please contact him.]

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

Since we currently hold no patches on tar from Debian, I'm going to send this upstream to Debian, thanks Eric.

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

Eric, before I file this upstream, whats the version of tar you're seeing this with?

[Eric S. Raymond (esr-thyrsus)]

Matthew Fischer <email address hidden>:
> Eric, before I file this upstream, whats the version of tar you're
> seeing this with?

1.26
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