Re: Bug#410407: coreutils: missing spaces in --help breaks manpages generated with help2man

[Jim Meyering]

Thomas Huriaux <address@hidden> wrote:
> Package: coreutils
> Version: 5.97-5.3
>
> Here is a list of issues when the --help output is not correctly
> formatted to generate correct manpages with help2man.

Thanks for the detailed report.
I've fixed all of those that were still relevant to the upstream code.

2007-02-10  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        Remove excess leading spaces that would make help2man misbehave.
        * src/printf.c (usage): Remove excess spaces on 2nd line of %b desc.
        * src/nl.c (usage): Remove excess spaces on 2nd line of pBRE desc.
        * src/dd.c (usage): Remove excess spaces on 2nd line of sync desc.
        * src/date.c (usage): Use two spaces after each optional flag, not one.
        Reported by Thomas Huriaux in <http://bugs.debian.org/410407>.

        * Makefile.maint (longopt_re): Relax the regexp, making square
        brackets optional, so it matches the newly reported violations, too.

        * src/csplit.c (usage): Use two spaces (not one) to separate
        each option string from its description, so help2man formats
        the derived man page properly.  Reported by Thomas Huriaux in
        <http://bugs.debian.org/410407>.
        * src/df.c (usage): Likewise.
        * src/du.c (usage): Likewise.
        * src/install.c (usage): Likewise.
        * src/ls.c (usage): Likewise.