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Package: symlinks
Version: 1.4-4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Summary:
Trim trailing space.
Remove superfluous paragraph macros (.PP).
Use the correct font macro for one argument (one font, not two).
Use '\-' to indicate an option, not '-'.
Split long lines into shorter.
Details:
Input file is symlinks.1
chk_man: Next line: execute mandoc -T lint symlinks.1
mandoc: symlinks.1:66:7: STYLE: whitespace at end of input line
mandoc: symlinks.1:88:7: STYLE: whitespace at end of input line
mandoc: symlinks.1:92:7: STYLE: whitespace at end of input line
mandoc: symlinks.1:107:7: STYLE: whitespace at end of input line
mandoc: symlinks.1:108:38: STYLE: whitespace at end of input line
mandoc: symlinks.1:110:27: STYLE: whitespace at end of input line
mandoc: symlinks.1:119:13: STYLE: whitespace at end of input line
mandoc: symlinks.1:1:16: WARNING: cannot parse date, using it verbatim: October
2008
mandoc: symlinks.1:63:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: PP empty
mandoc: symlinks.1:113:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: PP empty
mandoc: symlinks.1:117:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: PP empty
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Test nr. 2:
Enable and fix warnings from 'test-groff'.
Output is from: test-groff -b -e -mandoc -T utf8 -rF0 -t -w w -z
[ "test-groff" is a developmental version of "groff" ]
Input file is ./symlinks.1
<symlinks.1>:12 (macro BI): only 1 argument, but more are expected
####
Test nr. 25:
Change a HYPHEN-MINUS (code 0x55, 2D) to a minus (\-), if in front of a
name for an option.
8:.B -cdorstv
46:.B -c
53:.B -s
55:.B -c
61:.B -r
66:.I -c
73:.B -s
78:.B -c
83:.I -d
88:.I -o
92:.I -r
95:.I -s
100:.I -t
104:.B -c
107:.I -v
111:.B -v
#####
Test nr. 37:
Split lines longer than 80 characters into two or more lines.
Appropriate break points are the end of a sentence and a subordinate
clause; after punctuation marks.
symlinks.1: line 120 length 86
has been written by Mark Lord <[email protected]>, the original developer and
maintainer
symlinks.1: line 121 length 114
of the IDE Performance Package for linux, the Linux IDE Driver subsystem,
hdparm, and a current day libata hacker.
#####
Patch:
--- symlinks.1 2020-02-21 23:55:08.000000000 +0000
+++ symlinks.1.new 2020-04-10 23:34:53.000000000 +0000
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ symlinks \- symbolic link maintenance ut
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B symlinks
[
-.B -cdorstv
+.B \-cdorstv
]
dirlist
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.BI symlinks
+.B symlinks
is a useful utility for maintainers of FTP sites, CDROMs,
and Linux software distributions.
It scans directories for symbolic links and lists them on stdout,
@@ -43,81 +43,81 @@ mounted at /mnt after booting from alter
.B messy
links are links which contain unnecessary slashes or dots in the path.
These are cleaned up as well when
-.B -c
+.B \-c
is specified.
.PP
.B lengthy
links are links which use "../" more than necessary in the path
-(eg. /bin/vi -> ../bin/vim)
+(e.g., /bin/vi \-> \&../bin/vim).
These are only detected when
-.B -s
+.B \-s
is specified, and are only cleaned up when
-.B -c
+.B \-c
is also specified.
.PP
.B other_fs
are those links whose target currently resides on a different filesystem
from where symlinks was run (most useful with
-.B -r
+.B \-r
).
-.PP
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
-.I -c
+.I \-c
convert absolute links (within the same filesystem) to relative links.
This permits links to maintain their validity regardless of the mount
point used for the filesystem -- a desirable setup in most cases.
This option also causes any
.B messy
links to be cleaned up, and, if
-.B -s
+.B \-s
was also specified, then
.B lengthy
links are also shortened.
Links affected by
-.B -c
+.B \-c
are prefixed with
.B changed
in the output.
.TP
-.I -d
+.I \-d
causes
.B dangling
links to be removed.
.TP
-.I -o
+.I \-o
fix links on other filesystems encountered while recursing.
Normally, other filesystems encountered are not modified by symlinks.
.TP
-.I -r
+.I \-r
recursively operate on subdirectories within the same filesystem.
.TP
-.I -s
+.I \-s
causes
.B lengthy
links to be detected.
.TP
-.I -t
+.I \-t
is used to test for what
.B symlinks
would do if
-.B -c
+.B \-c
were specified, but without really changing anything.
.TP
-.I -v
-show all symbolic links. By default,
+.I \-v
+show all symbolic links. By default,
.B relative
-links are not shown unless
-.B -v
+links are not shown unless
+.B \-v
is specified.
-.PP
.SH BUGS
.B symlinks
does not recurse or change links across filesystems.
-.PP
.SH AUTHOR
-.B symlinks
-has been written by Mark Lord <[email protected]>, the original developer and
maintainer
-of the IDE Performance Package for linux, the Linux IDE Driver subsystem,
hdparm, and a current day libata hacker.
+.B symlinks
+has been written by Mark Lord <[email protected]>,
+the original developer and maintainer
+of the IDE Performance Package for linux,
+the Linux IDE Driver subsystem, hdparm,
+and a current day libata hacker.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR symlink (2)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.4.19-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1),
LANGUAGE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages symlinks depends on:
ii libc6 2.30-4
symlinks recommends no packages.
symlinks suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Bjarni I. Gislason
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1.4-5
This bug seems to be duplicate WRT #1092974, which was closed with the uploaded
version. I'm sorry for not having spotted this one earlier!
– Gunnar.
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