[Bug-tar] webnits [was: --test-label is not quiet upon a mismatch]

[Benno Schulenberg]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:
> However, it has already
> been fixed in the repository (commit 0ba8bdf5f340).

Ah.  Sorry.  I searched the mailing list archive for --test-label and found
nothing, and on the home page (http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/) had
not found a direct link to a browsable source repo.

Some remarks about possible improvements of that page.

The third paragraph of "Downloading Tar" still speaks of CVS access,
although nowadays git is used.  It also speaks of alpha releases, which
are already mentioned in the preceding paragraph.  And patches I guess
you would prefer to go directly to the mailing list.  So I propose to merge
the entire line with the last paragraph of the preceding section ("Additional
information...") and reduce it to something like "For a different overview of
the project see the [project's page at Savannah] or in the [GNU Software
directory]."  -- because in fact very little additional info is available on 
those
pages.

Then the third paragraph of "Downloading Tar" could read instead:
"You can browse the source code in our [online git repository] or
fetch it with [a literal git command]."

In the section "Mailing lists" (maybe better singular?) "a patch" could
be added after "a bug report".

(After "How to get GNU Software" a period is missing.)

The commit that fixed --test-label recoded the NEWS file from UTF-8
to ISO-8859.  Was that intentional?

On http://directory.fsf.org/project/tar/ the Versions tab says that the
license is GPLv2, whereas tar itself says GPLv3+.  The Development
tab provides an obsolete checkout command, a non-working CVS link,
and a link to an old CVS repo.

Regards,

Benno

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