Package: man-db Version: 2.7.6.1-2 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/man In a terminal with # tput cols 85
I looked at the man page of "sloccount". The result was this (left-shifted to match the line length limit here): SYNOPSIS sloccount [--version] [--cached] [--append] [ --datadir directory ] [--fol‐ low] [--duplicates] [--crossdups] [--autogen] [--multiproject] [--file‐ count] [--wide] [--details] [ --effort F E ] [ --schedule F E ] [ --person‐ cost cost ] [ --overhead overhead ] [ --addlang language ] [ --addlangall ] [--] directories While "--fol-low" is easy to determine as a purely aesthetic dash because of the line-wrap, the "--file-count" actually got me; I tried the 3-dashes variant and got "Unknown option". Please turn this behaviour off, at least in the SYNOPSIS it's not a good idea IMO. Thanks a lot! -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 9.0.12 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii dpkg 1.18.15 ii groff-base 1.22.3-8 ii libc6 2.24-8 ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-14 ii libpipeline1 1.4.1-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-4 man-db recommends no packages. Versions of packages man-db suggests: ii chromium [www-browser] 53.0.2785.143-1 ii firefox [www-browser] 50.1.0-1 ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.5.1esr-1 ii groff 1.22.3-8 ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:16.08.3-1 ii less 481-2.1 ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.9dev11-1 ii qupzilla [www-browser] 1.8.9~dfsg1-3.1 ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-33 -- debconf information: * man-db/install-setuid: true man-db/auto-update: true