Debian's QA tool “lintian” reported a bad whatis entry for the
xorg.conf(.d) manpages.

It comes with the following pointers:
  For manual pages that document multiple programs, functions, files, or
  other things, the part before "\-" should list each separated by a
  comma and a space. […]

  Refer to the lexgrog(1) manual page, the groff_man(7) manual page, and
  the groff_mdoc(7) manual page for details.

Indeed, the current situation is:
  $ whatis xorg.conf; whatis xorg.conf.d
  xorg.conf (5)        - (unknown subject)
  xorg.conf.d (5)      - (unknown subject)

With this patch:
  xorg.conf (5)        - configuration files for Xorg X server
  xorg.conf.d (5)      - configuration files for Xorg X server

Signed-off-by: Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]>
---
 hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man b/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
index 996798f..5790185 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
+++ b/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .ds q \N'34'
 .TH __xconfigfile__ __filemansuffix__ __vendorversion__
 .SH NAME
-__xconfigfile__ and __xconfigdir__ \- configuration files for
+__xconfigfile__, __xconfigdir__ \- configuration files for
 __xservername__ X server
 .SH INTRODUCTION
 .B __xservername__
-- 
1.7.7.1

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