Package: cvs
Version: 1:1.12.9-13
Severity: minor

The cvs(1) manual page contains far too many redundant new lines.
Paragraphs are mostly separated by two blank lines, rather than the
customary one, and as many as six blank lines appear in places.

This differs from the usual manual format and means less information
than usual can be displayed on one screen.  This is symptomatic of
authors who are unfamiliar with nroff and troff, as the section and
paragraph macros (such as .SH and .PP) already create their own new
lines to separate paragraphs.

Perhaps the author has his MANPAGER or LESS environment variable set
such that the "-s" option is in use and redundant new lines are squeezed
into one new line.  In any case, I would hope the problem will be
resolved.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7eagle-20040916
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cvs depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.30.13    Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-22      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-22      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.2-3    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information excluded


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