Documented --pax-option

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  extracts the first occurrence of `filename' from `archive'
  and terminates without scanning to the end of the archive.

+* New option --pax-option allows to control the handling of POSIX
+  keywords in `pax' extended headers. It is equivalent to `pax'
+  -o option.
+  
 * Removed obsolete command line options:
 ** --absolute-paths superseded by --absolute-names
 ** --block-compress is not needed any longer