update documentation to reflect that we only ship a 'pax' executable

diff --git a/debian/README.debian b/debian/README.debian
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..374444c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/README.debian
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+If the 'pax' executable is hard-linked to 'tar' or 'cpio', it will 
+supposedly emulate those user interfaces.  But since we already have tar
+and cpio packages in Debian, we don't do anything to try and deliver
+those links.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 3f809fe0d8cec70f2e44903f6130c89b6dc15b98..b3a86703d1954980b1b2be4f9f8992a581859d4a 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@ pax (1:20090728-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * new upstream version synthesized from OpenBSD CVS HEAD, 
     closes: #434470, #277738
+  * update package description, et al, to reflect that we only ship with the
+    pax interface (executable name) but cpio and tar can work if appropriately
+    linked, closes: #505474
 
- -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:58:52 -0300
+ -- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>  Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:18:43 +0200
 
 pax (1:1.5-16) unstable; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 72239cff2891176fc3e9933a41b53f51690a2827..93cdf85b81b94bae26b8a6037f59a52cd20c1b70 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@ Description: Portable Archive Interchange
  Pax is an archiving utility that reads and writes tar and cpio formats,
  both the traditional ones and the extended formats specified in IEEE 1003.1.
  It handles multi-volume archives and automatically determines the format 
- of an archive while reading it.  Three user interfaces are 
- supported: tar, cpio, and pax.  The pax interface was designed by IEEE
+ of an archive while reading it.  The pax interface was designed by IEEE
  1003.2 as a compromise in the chronic controversy over which of tar or
  cpio is best.
  .