X-Git-Url: https://git.dogcows.com/gitweb?p=chaz%2Ftar;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README-alpha;h=4483f50e02df07a8778634cc065830555baed50e;hp=12f66786ff4ab9ae17fc3096cdcb4a44d4edc373;hb=576e99a21c566598d7a701142e439cb283cac24f;hpb=120e96c480fbfc5fa31fba0f59ba1a45953b838e

diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha
index 12f6678..4483f50 100644
--- a/README-alpha
+++ b/README-alpha
@@ -5,20 +5,23 @@ Please send comments and problem reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
 
 If you have taken the sources from CVS you will need the following
 packages (or later) to build GNU tar.  We don't make any extra effort
-to accommodate older versions of these packages.  If we discover that
-newer versions are needed to bootstrap, we'll update the version
-numbers in this list.
+to accommodate older versions of these packages, so please make sure
+that you have the latest stable version.
 
-autoconf 2.59
-automake 1.8
-bison 1.875
-gettext 0.12.1
-m4 1.4
-wget 1.7
+- Automake <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/>
+- Autoconf <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
+- Bison <http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/>
+- Gettext <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/>
+- Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>
+- M4 <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
+- Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
+- Wget <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>
 
-For GNU m4 1.4, we recommend also installing the `translit' patch; see
-Debian bug 211477 <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211477>.
-This patch is bundled into Debian m4 1.4-17 or later.
+As of this writing, the latest stable version of Gzip is 1.2.4 but we
+suggest using test version 1.3.5 (or later, if one becomes available).
+
+Valgrind <http://valgrind.org/> is also highly recommended, if
+Valgrind supports your architecture.
 
 Before building the package, run "bootstrap".  It obtains various
 additional files from the CVS repository and the Translation Project
@@ -59,14 +62,15 @@ some other value.
 
 
 
-Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright 2001, 2003-2005, 2007, 2013-2014 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU tar.
 
 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-any later version.
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
 
 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@@ -74,7 +78,4 @@ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
-Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
-
+along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.