Re: [Bug-tar] GFDL unmodifiable sections in info

[Bdale Garbee]

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 23:53 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > * Bdale Garbee <address@hidden> [2006-03-25 15:25]:
> >> > Sorry, it is not possible.
> >> 
> >> Why not?  The alternative is that the tar info documentation will not
> >
> > Probably because it's official FSF policy
> 
> Yes, that's correct.  I don't think Debian and the FSF are that far
> apart here, really; it's too bad they can't agree.

Ok.

> It's not that big a deal for many users these days; they can read the
> documentation online at the FSF web site
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/index.html>.
> 
> Perhaps the Debian distribution can simply point users to the FSF
> manual online?  Surely such a pointer, all by itself, would not
> violate Debian policy.  (It clearly would not violate the GFDL.)

We have a (fairly lame, but useful) man page for tar in the Debian
package already, so I think the right thing to do is to freshen that man
page a bit, include this link in the man page, and carry on.  I'll get
that done shortly.

Bdale