Package: man-db
Version: 2.8.2-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Input file is man.1
Test nr. 1: Remove space at end of lines to simplify other automatic tests to
improve
typesetting.
173:directive in
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Test nr. 2: Enable and fix warnings from 'test-groff'.
Input file is /tmp/man.1
:169 (macro IR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
:330 (macro BR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
:916 (macro IR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
:1180 (macro BR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
:1402 (macro BR): only 1 argument, but more are expected
chk_manuals: Output is from: test-groff -Tutf8 -b -e -mandoc -rF0 -t -w w -z
Test nr. 15: Change the name of a macro for two fonts (e.g., BR and IR) to
one letter,
if there is only one argument.
Add the second argument if needed. It is sometimes part of the first one.
169:.IR sections
330:.BR dvips.
916:.IR x
1180:.BR \-\-usage
1402:.BR FSSTND
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Test nr. 8: Protect a full stop (.) with \&, if it has a blank (white-space) in
front
of or (ignoring transparent characters to the full stop) after it, and it does
not mean an end of a sentence.
1409:30th April 1994 \(en 23rd February 2000: Wilf. (g.wilf...@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
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Test nr. 20: Use a macro to change to the italic font, instead of \fI [1], if
possible.
The macros have the italic corrections.
[1] man-pages(7)
291:from section \fI7\fR.
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Test nr. 24:
Change a HYPHEN-MINUS (code 0x55, 2D) to a minus (\-), if in front of a
name for an option.
1110:.I groff -mandoc
1167:.I groff -mandoc
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Test nr. 27: Split lines longer than 80 characters into two or more
lines.
man.1: line 170 length 108
man.1: line 1232length 85
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Test nr. 28: The "indicator" is an "end-of-sentence character" (.!?).
The space between sentences in "roff" is two spaces.
Better is to begin each sentence on a new line to avoid different
writers' conventions.
References:
1) man-pages(7) from package \"man-pages\" or
\"www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages\" section 7 or
\"man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/man-pages.7.html\":
\"New sentences should be started on new lines.
This makes it easier to see the effect of patches,
which often operate at the level of individual sentences.\"
2) groff_diff(7) in package \"groff\":
\"In GNU troff, as in UNIX troff, you should always follow a sentence
with either a newline or two spaces.\"
3) \"info groff\":
Search for the word \"sentence\" in the output to get more hints about input
conventions.
480:database caches. If the
1409:30th April 1994 \(en 23rd February 2000: Wilf. (g.wilf...@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
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NO PATCH
Test nr. 30: Surround a block of comments with the macros ".ig" and "..".
The .\" at the beginning of each line is then not needed.
Makes it easier to add and remove text and adjust lenght of lines
2:.\" ** The above line should force tbl to be a preprocessor **
3:.\" Man page for man
4:.\"
5:.\" Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, Graeme W. Wilford. (Wilf.)
6:.\" Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008 Colin Watson.
7:.\"
8:.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
9:.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the
10:.\" man-db distribution.
11:.\"
12:.\" Sat Oct 29 13:09:31 GMT 1994 Wilf. (g.wilf...@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
13:.\"
19:.\" The general command line
66:.\" The apropos command line
74:.\" The --global-apropos command line
85:.\" The whatis command line
93:.\" The --local command line
126:.\" The --where/--where-cat command line
136:.\" The --catman command line
146:.\" --help and --version
414:.\"`User' manual page hierarchies will have
415:.\".B index
416:.\"caches created `on the fly'.
451:.\"
452:.\" Need a \c to make sure we don't get a space where we don't want one
453:.\"
557:.\"
635:.\" Compressed nroff source files with a supported compression
636:.\" extension will be decompressed by man prior to being displaying via the
637:.\" usual filters.
688:.\"
689:.\" Due to the rather silly limit of 6 args per request in some `native'
690:.\" *roff compilers, we have do the following to get the two-line
691:.\" hanging tag on one line. .PP to begin a new paragraph, then the
692:.\" tag, then .RS (start relative indent), the text, finally .RE
693:.\" (end relative indent).
694:.\"
918:.\"The default options are
919:.\".BR \-six8 .
923:.\"The actual default will depend on your chosen
924:.\".BR locale .
929:.\"You may need to do this if your
930:.\"version of
931:.\".B less
932:.\"rejects the default options or if you prefer a different prompt.
1202:.\".TP \w'MANROFFSEQ\ \ 'u
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Test nr. 35: Add a space around "|" to increases readability
1375:.I /usr/share/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
1380:.I /var/cache/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
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The patch is in the attachment.
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