4 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
5 Uploaders: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
6 Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 5), gettext, autoconf, autotools-dev
7 Standards-Version: 3.8.2
11 Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
13 Conflicts: cpio (<= 2.4.2-38)
14 Replaces: cpio (<< 2.4.2-39)
15 Suggests: bzip2, ncompress
16 Description: GNU version of the tar archiving utility
17 Tar is a program for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar
18 format. The function it performs is conceptually similar to cpio, and to
19 things like PKZIP in the DOS world. It is heavily used by the Debian package
20 management system, and is useful for performing system backups and exchanging
21 sets of files with others.