Subject: mount.8 lacks .TP before nofail and iversion options
Package: mount
Version: 2.17.2-9
Severity: minor

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The lack of .TP lines before nofail and iversion in
<quote src="/usr/share/man/man8/mount.8.gz">
.TP
.B keybits
Specifies the key size to use for an encryption algorithm. Used in conjunction
with the
.BR loop " and " encryption " options."
.B nofail
Do not report errors for this device if it does not exist.
.B iversion
Every time the inode is modified, the i_version field will be incremented.
.TP
.B noiversion
Do not increment the i_version inode field.
</quote>
leads to man displaying these two options as parts of the paragraph of
information about keybits, instead of as options in their own right,
with their own paragraphs, as intended. <patch>
diff -bu /tmp/mount.8.orig /tmp/mount.8
--- mount.8.orig        2011-03-26 12:53:19.781284780 +0100
+++ mount.8     2011-03-26 12:52:58.605284274 +0100
@@ -856,8 +856,10 @@
Specifies the key size to use for an encryption algorithm. Used in conjunction
 with the
 .BR loop " and " encryption " options."
+.TP
 .B nofail
 Do not report errors for this device if it does not exist.
+.TP
 .B iversion
 Every time the inode is modified, the i_version field will be incremented.
 .TP

Diff finished.  Sat Mar 26 12:53:28 2011
</patch>

Also: the AVAILABILITY section claims mount is part of util-linux-ng,
but the actual package that provides it is called mount.  Not sure if
that's "wrong" or merely that Debian splits up util-linux-ng.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mount depends on:
ii  libblkid1                     2.17.2-9   block device id library
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.96-1   SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libsepol1 2.0.41-1 SELinux library for manipulating b
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-9   Universally Unique ID library

mount recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mount suggests:
pn  nfs-common                    <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information





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