From unknown Sun Jun 22 08:03:56 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#19228: Challenging output from "help2man split" Resent-From: "Kevin O'Gorman" Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:07:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 19228 X-GNU-PR-Package: coreutils X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: bug-help2man@gnu.org, 19228@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-help2man@gnu.org, bug-coreutils@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.141736721729383 (code B ref -1); Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:07:02 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Nov 2014 17:06:57 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50094 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xY-0007dr-KC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:56 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38089) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xW-0007dj-UZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xV-0002tj-Us for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:54 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16,HTML_MESSAGE,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:55663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xV-0002tf-Rm for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:53 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39769) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xS-000068-OM for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xO-0002ro-1M for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:50 -0500 Received: from mail-qg0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22e]:47774) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xA-0002oR-Qv; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:32 -0500 Received: by mail-qg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id z107so6485563qgd.19 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Ox//mqRnpYGCWMAwcT8l9fzTwV5U3anAguSPtr9htcE=; b=U1Husqx5U75HLfWMFsr+mY5CsuSmG8yoFUXEM7QR+JdW8ol67Vf2ERWpl1hrD4aJvX cN/CgppLumuH/aNjWWaH64aoS6FH3Qc/EZz9mDsF0GnPO0E0wjxS0SQXqNlBd3pfNTHX Yf3M9324f97pkDI8NGP0GWX6uUMOQghsIP/wILL4gsUZEgToRyvk0+qJpvXFIODsi368 0MV/oAzJvLB4+3Tbc/Q/7vkBP/YFAT6qJvETfNRA/J3RQolugf0Hm6cjbesfD63yxH0k q/sgwjMRM2frjg25l+jZ/6xsz4jQhBJlc0Vsgi/kpeZJum7II8Mx3OpxkiDbch0JXdIn Cm6w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.48.233 with SMTP id o96mr79319149qga.47.1417367192223; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.18.2 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Kevin O'Gorman" Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=001a11351a2a0248200509168446 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) --001a11351a2a0248200509168446 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11351a2a0248120509168445 --001a11351a2a0248120509168445 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email. --001a11351a2a0248120509168445 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This is sent to the bug addresses for both help2man a= nd split because I'm not sure where the fault lies.=C2=A0 Both are GNU = projects, so I hope you can cooperate and figure it out.

In an= y event, the output of "help2man split" loses some line breaks an= d makes an itemized list somewhat hard to understand.=C2=A0 This is the por= tion that begins "CHUNKS may be:"

I'm an Xubuntu user,= and this output is the man page we get.=C2=A0 I expect the same is true of= some or all debian-based distros, and perhaps others as well.

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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, though there are extraneous newlines then. I'll look at improving further. thanks, Pádraig. diff --git a/src/split.c b/src/split.c index 0eec3ec..0057267 100644 --- a/src/split.c +++ b/src/split.c @@ -234,12 +234,12 @@ is -, read standard input.\n\ emit_size_note (); fputs (_("\n\ CHUNKS may be:\n\ -N split into N files based on size of input\n\ -K/N output Kth of N to stdout\n\ -l/N split into N files without splitting lines\n\ -l/K/N output Kth of N to stdout without splitting lines\n\ -r/N like 'l' but use round robin distribution\n\ -r/K/N likewise but only output Kth of N to stdout\n\ + N split into N files based on size of input\n\ + K/N output Kth of N to stdout\n\ + l/N split into N files without splitting lines\n\ + l/K/N output Kth of N to stdout without splitting lines\n\ + r/N like 'l' but use round robin distribution\n\ + r/K/N likewise but only output Kth of N to stdout\n\ "), stdout); emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME); } From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Wed Dec 31 07:06:07 2014 Received: (at control) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2014 12:06:07 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33321 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6I2Q-0006Qf-VC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:06:07 -0500 Received: from mail2.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.44]:13141) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6I2M-0006Q9-Iw; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 07:06:03 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AncPAADmo1RtTG4b/2dsb2JhbABcgwaCTYETT2qIH6tYkXSCTwKBBhYBAQEBAX2EDQEFGQpmCw0NAgUWCwICCQMCAQIBRQYBDAgBAYgsAbIdhWmOfAEBCAIggSGOXYJogUEFnSKLNiKDbj6CdAEBAQ Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([109.76.110.27]) by mail2.vodafone.ie with ESMTP; 31 Dec 2014 12:06:00 +0000 Message-ID: <54A3E6A8.8010801@draigBrady.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:06:00 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?UMOhZHJhaWcgQnJhZHk=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin O'Gorman , 19476@debbugs.gnu.org, bug-help2man@gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#19476: Poor output from "help2man split" References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: control X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) forcemerge 19228 19476 stop From unknown Sun Jun 22 08:03:56 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#19228: bug#19476: Poor output from "help2man split" Resent-From: =?UTF-8?Q?P=C3=A1draig?= Brady Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:32:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19228 X-GNU-PR-Package: coreutils X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Kevin O'Gorman Cc: bug-help2man@gnu.org, 19228@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 19228-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19228.14200470625228 (code B ref 19228); Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:32:01 +0000 Received: (at 19228) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2014 17:31:02 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33885 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6N6r-0001M7-IC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:31:01 -0500 Received: from mail2.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.44]:1085) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6N6o-0001Lv-QI for 19228@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 12:31:00 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsMJAGYypFRtTG4b/2dsb2JhbABcgwaBKoEjgRNPySYCgQYWAQEBAQF9hA0BBSMPAUYQCw0LAgIFFggDAgIJAwIBAgE0EQYNAQUCAQGILAGzK4Vpjn0BAQgBAQEBAR2BIY5WB4JogUEFnSKLNiKDbj4xgkMBAQE Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([109.76.110.27]) by mail2.vodafone.ie with ESMTP; 31 Dec 2014 17:30:57 +0000 Message-ID: <54A432D0.7020502@draigBrady.com> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:30:56 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?Q?P=C3=A1draig?= Brady User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <54A3E6A8.8010801@draigBrady.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) On 31/12/14 15:32, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Pádraig Brady > wrote: > > forcemerge 19228 19476 > stop > > > I have no clue what that means. Just merging with the same issue you raised a month ago. I'll have it improved for the upcoming release. thanks, Pádraig From unknown Sun Jun 22 08:03:56 2025 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.503 (Entity 5.503) X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org From: help-debbugs@gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System) To: "Kevin O'Gorman" Subject: bug#19228: closed (Re: bug#19228: Challenging output from "help2man split") Message-ID: References: <54A58DFD.4000806@draigBrady.com> X-Gnu-PR-Message: they-closed 19228 X-Gnu-PR-Package: coreutils Reply-To: 19228@debbugs.gnu.org Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:13:03 +0000 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----------=_1420135983-30548-1" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1420135983-30548-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Your bug report #19228: Challenging output from "help2man split" which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. If you require more details, please reply to 19228@debbugs.gnu.org. --=20 19228: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D19228 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems ------------=_1420135983-30548-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at 19228-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Jan 2015 18:12:19 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34609 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6kEM-0007vh-Vs for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 13:12:19 -0500 Received: from mail2.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.44]:38198) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6kEK-0007vZ-Mi for 19228-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 13:12:17 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArEHAIKNpVRtTtHJ/2dsb2JhbABcgwaCTYETT8ZPgk8CgQUWAQEBAQF9hAwBAQEDASMPAUsLCw0LAgIFFgsCAgkDAgECAUUGAQwIAQGIIAwBsGGFaY4pAQsggSGOXYJogUEBBJ0iizYig24+gnQBAQE Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([109.78.209.201]) by mail2.vodafone.ie with ESMTP; 01 Jan 2015 18:12:14 +0000 Message-ID: <54A58DFD.4000806@draigBrady.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:12:13 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?UMOhZHJhaWcgQnJhZHk=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin O'Gorman , bug-help2man@gnu.org, 19228-done@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#19228: Challenging output from "help2man split" References: <547B54F5.2050905@draigBrady.com> In-Reply-To: <547B54F5.2050905@draigBrady.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 19228-done X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) 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. ------------=_1420135983-30548-1 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Nov 2014 17:06:57 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50094 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xY-0007dr-KC for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:56 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38089) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xW-0007dj-UZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xV-0002tj-Us for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:54 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16,HTML_MESSAGE,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:55663) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xV-0002tf-Rm for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:53 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39769) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xS-000068-OM for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:53 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xO-0002ro-1M for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:50 -0500 Received: from mail-qg0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22e]:47774) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xv7xA-0002oR-Qv; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 12:06:32 -0500 Received: by mail-qg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id z107so6485563qgd.19 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Ox//mqRnpYGCWMAwcT8l9fzTwV5U3anAguSPtr9htcE=; b=U1Husqx5U75HLfWMFsr+mY5CsuSmG8yoFUXEM7QR+JdW8ol67Vf2ERWpl1hrD4aJvX cN/CgppLumuH/aNjWWaH64aoS6FH3Qc/EZz9mDsF0GnPO0E0wjxS0SQXqNlBd3pfNTHX Yf3M9324f97pkDI8NGP0GWX6uUMOQghsIP/wILL4gsUZEgToRyvk0+qJpvXFIODsi368 0MV/oAzJvLB4+3Tbc/Q/7vkBP/YFAT6qJvETfNRA/J3RQolugf0Hm6cjbesfD63yxH0k q/sgwjMRM2frjg25l+jZ/6xsz4jQhBJlc0Vsgi/kpeZJum7II8Mx3OpxkiDbch0JXdIn Cm6w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.48.233 with SMTP id o96mr79319149qga.47.1417367192223; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.18.2 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Challenging output from "help2man split" From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: bug-help2man@gnu.org, bug-coreutils@gnu.org Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=001a11351a2a0248200509168446 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) --001a11351a2a0248200509168446 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11351a2a0248120509168445 --001a11351a2a0248120509168445 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email. --001a11351a2a0248120509168445 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This is sent to the bug addresses for both help2man a= nd split because I'm not sure where the fault lies.=C2=A0 Both are GNU = projects, so I hope you can cooperate and figure it out.

In an= y event, the output of "help2man split" loses some line breaks an= d makes an itemized list somewhat hard to understand.=C2=A0 This is the por= tion that begins "CHUNKS may be:"

I'm an Xubuntu user,= and this output is the man page we get.=C2=A0 I expect the same is true of= some or all debian-based distros, and perhaps others as well.

--
<= div>Kevin O'Gorman
#define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb))=C2=A0=C2= =A0 /* Shakespeare */

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The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. If you require more details, please reply to 19476@debbugs.gnu.org. --=20 19228: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D19228 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems ------------=_1420135983-30548-3 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at 19228-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Jan 2015 18:12:19 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34609 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6kEM-0007vh-Vs for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 13:12:19 -0500 Received: from mail2.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.44]:38198) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6kEK-0007vZ-Mi for 19228-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2015 13:12:17 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArEHAIKNpVRtTtHJ/2dsb2JhbABcgwaCTYETT8ZPgk8CgQUWAQEBAQF9hAwBAQEDASMPAUsLCw0LAgIFFgsCAgkDAgECAUUGAQwIAQGIIAwBsGGFaY4pAQsggSGOXYJogUEBBJ0iizYig24+gnQBAQE Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.localdomain) ([109.78.209.201]) by mail2.vodafone.ie with ESMTP; 01 Jan 2015 18:12:14 +0000 Message-ID: <54A58DFD.4000806@draigBrady.com> Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:12:13 +0000 From: =?UTF-8?B?UMOhZHJhaWcgQnJhZHk=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin O'Gorman , bug-help2man@gnu.org, 19228-done@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#19228: Challenging output from "help2man split" References: <547B54F5.2050905@draigBrady.com> In-Reply-To: <547B54F5.2050905@draigBrady.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 19228-done X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) 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. ------------=_1420135983-30548-3 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Dec 2014 11:28:48 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33312 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6HSJ-0005Q1-QL for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:28:48 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55990) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6HSG-0005Pt-UV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:28:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6HSF-0004Am-OR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:28:44 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_16,HTML_MESSAGE,T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:55078) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6HSF-0004Ai-M6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:28:43 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6HSE-0004jr-TA for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:28:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6HSE-0004A1-5Q for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:28:42 -0500 Received: from mail-qg0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c04::229]:36167) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y6HSB-00049B-Uy; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:28:40 -0500 Received: by mail-qg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id e89so9694048qgf.28; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:28:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=LqDq+zPS+mP/FqFqoBZOO5mqWZYoQPE+f7yaNBYaWBM=; b=vmDuSrArBxNRU/FlIK4xIDYhVHzf2yEfV9MOP0UMoGYGSh3HQjmX0oSOn/93WnL+Fe U+pznP7GPEmmkSonGyFSeuzwZ8TMqa/8IBdkDrcT6K9rI6u8vQRr25kCAt0sRoA016mp HlaSnoBrb2JzAtUzxLZC0A4jIgV2gSph6B8HqtY57XkC2saoK2+9Km4wiIsb8OUbOCs4 rhbnZ4oIKQYXxD2etERbfzivoNxFyX5exjSv1szwKA2DgJ+GViTr+xWNLzxMN5MHiaDA Q2Rq0pXToY8uFMl82XViTG1lgnL//YO3gWAv6D7Hp47KNnusDkhqhGxlP5Q5bg56SL5Z WLaw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.229.19.3 with SMTP id y3mr107854017qca.1.1420025317443; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:28:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.180.205 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:28:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 03:28:37 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Poor output from "help2man split" From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org, bug-help2man@gnu.org Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=001a1133c5629e6a80050b8168da X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) --001a1133c5629e6a80050b8168da Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a1133c5629e6a7a050b8168d9 --001a1133c5629e6a7a050b8168d9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 This is sent to the bug address for both split and help2man because I don't really know where the fault lies. Both help2man and split are GNU software, though, so I hope you can cooperate and figure it out. In any event, there's a bit of the output that is challenging to read because line breaks have been lost. The output of "help2man split" joins the nines in the poriti that begins -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email. --001a1133c5629e6a7a050b8168d9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This is sent to the bug address for both split and he= lp2man because I don't really know where the fault lies.=C2=A0 Both hel= p2man and split are GNU software, though, so I hope you can cooperate and f= igure it out.

In any event, there's a bit of the output th= at is challenging to read because line breaks have been lost.=C2=A0 The out= put of "help2man split" joins the nines in the poriti that begins=

--
Kevin O&= #39;Gorman
#define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb))=C2=A0=C2=A0 /* Shakesp= eare */

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