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Challenging output from "help2man split"

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#19228: closed (Re: bug#19228: Challenging output from
 "help2man split")
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:13:03 +0000

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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 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman <at> gmail.com>, bug-help2man <at> gnu.org, 
 19228-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19228: Challenging output from "help2man split"
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:12:13 +0000

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.

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From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-help2man <at> gnu.org, bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Challenging output from "help2man split"
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 09:06:32 -0800

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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
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