Package: debianutils
Version: 5.7-0.4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
here are a few remarks and fixes for the manual.
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The difference between the formatted outputs can be seen with:
nroff -man <file1> > <out1>
nroff -man <file2> > <out2>
diff -u <out1> <out2>
and for groff using
"groff -man -Z" instead of "nroff -man"
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Output from "mandoc -T lint run-parts.8":
mandoc: run-parts.8:12:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: PP after SH
mandoc: run-parts.8:14:81: STYLE: input text line longer than 80 bytes:
[\-\-test] [\-\-verb...
mandoc: run-parts.8:21:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: PP after SH
mandoc: run-parts.8:117:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: PP after SH
mandoc: run-parts.8:123:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: PP after SH
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Reduce space between words.
33:in .dpkg\-old or .dpkg\-dist or .dpkg\-new or .dpkg\-tmp, and must
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Protect a period (.) or a apostrophe (') with '\&' from becoming a
control character, if it could end up at the start of a line (by
splitting the line into more lines).
33:in .dpkg\-old or .dpkg\-dist or .dpkg\-new or .dpkg\-tmp, and must
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--- run-parts.8 2023-06-25 13:43:36.000000000 +0000
+++ run-parts.8.new 2023-06-25 13:55:27.000000000 +0000
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
.SH NAME
run\-parts \- run scripts or programs in a directory
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.PP
.B run\-parts
[\-\-test] [\-\-verbose] [\-\-debug] [\-\-report] [\-\-lsbsysinit]
[\-\-regex=RE]
[\-\-umask=umask] [\-\-arg=argument] [\-\-exit\-on\-error] [\-\-help]
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ run\-parts \- run scripts or programs in
.B run\-parts
\-V
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.PP
.B run\-parts
runs all the executable files named within constraints described below, found
in directory
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ then the names must consist entirely of
letters, ASCII digits, ASCII underscores, and ASCII minus-hyphens.
If the \-\-lsbsysinit option is given, then the names must not end
-in .dpkg\-old or .dpkg\-dist or .dpkg\-new or .dpkg\-tmp, and must
+in \&.dpkg\-old or \&.dpkg\-dist or \&.dpkg\-new or \&.dpkg\-tmp, and must
belong to one or more of the following namespaces: the
LANANA-assigned namespace (^[a\-z0\-9]+$); the LSB hierarchical and
reserved namespaces (^_?([a\-z0\-9_.]+\-)+[a\-z0\-9]+$);
@@ -114,13 +112,11 @@ display usage information and exit.
display version and copyright and exit.
.SH EXAMPLES
-.P
Print the names of all files in /etc that start with `p' and end with `d':
.P
run-parts \-\-list \-\-regex \[aq]^p.*d$\[aq] /etc
.SH COPYRIGHT
-.P
Copyright (C) 1994 Ian Jackson.
.P
Copyright (C) 1996 Jeff Noxon.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.3.7-1 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1),
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.36-9
debianutils recommends no packages.
debianutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
