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bug#19228: Challenging output from "help2man split"


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: bug#19228: Challenging output from "help2man split"
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:12:13 +0000
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On 30/11/14 17:33, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 30/11/14 17:06, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> This is sent to the bug addresses for both help2man and split because I'm 
>> not sure where the fault lies.  Both are GNU projects, so I hope you can 
>> cooperate and figure it out.
>>
>> In any event, the output of "help2man split" loses some line breaks and 
>> makes an itemized list somewhat hard to understand.  This is the portion 
>> that begins "CHUNKS may be:"
>>
>> I'm an Xubuntu user, and this output is the man page we get.  I expect the 
>> same is true of some or all debian-based distros, and perhaps others as well.
> 
> Yes we should improve this. with the following simple patch
> we get better output in the man page,

I've now pushed that and marking this as done.

> though there are extraneous newlines then

I'm not sure if tighter formatting is possible
or appropriate for man pages.

thanks,
Pádraig.






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