GNU bug report logs - #41962
Errors in man coreutils pages

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian <at> helgefjell.de>

Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian <at> helgefjell.de>, 41962 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41962: Errors in man coreutils pages
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 18:25:25 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On 20/06/2020 07:48, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:

Thanks for reporting these issues.
They should be addressed in the attached.


> Man page: rm.1
> Issue: FIXME I<> → B<>
> 
> "B<--preserve-root>[=I<\\,all\\/>]"

The 'I' is auto generated by help2man and consistent with other uses.
What's the specific issue here?

thanks!
Pádraig

[coreutils-man-punctuation.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]
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