[debbugs-tracker] bug#19228: closed (Challenging output from "help2man split")

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Challenging output from "help2man split" Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800

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.

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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.
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> >> 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:"
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> >> 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.
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> > Yes we should improve this. with the following simple patch
> > we get better output in the man page,
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> I've now pushed that and marking this as done.
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> > though there are extraneous newlines then
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> I'm not sure if tighter formatting is possible
> or appropriate for man pages.
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> thanks,
> Pádraig.
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