Package: tar Version: 1.29b-1.1 Severity: normal "man tar" says:
--preserve Same as both -p and -s. But "tar" itself doesn't support this option: $ tar --preserve -cf /tmp/a.tar /etc/fstab tar: option '--preserve' is ambiguous; possibilities: '--preserve-permissions' '--preserve-order' Try 'tar --help' or 'tar --usage' for more information. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-3 ii libc6 2.24-7 ii libselinux1 2.6-3 tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 pn ncompress <none> pn tar-scripts <none> ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2 -- no debconf information