From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021207 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: # tar --help says that --bzip2 is a valid option # man tar says that --bzip (note lack of '2') is a valid option In actuality, both options work correctly. The man page and the help message should be reconciled for consistency. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-pages-1.53-1, tar-1.13.25-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # tar --help 2. # man tar 3. Additional info:
I'm sorry. Even though u are right i won't fix it. Both variants work correctly. It's just detail, which does not stand for patch. Try report to upstream.