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Bug#771904: unshar manpage: "Pp" (fwd)
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Santiago Vila
2014-12-03 11:48:17 UTC
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Hello.

I received this report from the Debian bug system.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jakub Wilk <***@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <***@bugs.debian.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 12:32:12 +0100
Subject: Bug#771904: unshar manpage: "Pp"

Package: sharutils
Version: 1:4.14-2
Severity: minor

$ man unshar | grep Pp
an invocation of the shell program to unpack it..Pp This program will


I don't know what's this "Pp" supposed to mean. :-)
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Jakub Wilk
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The "Pp" thing is clearly a groff typo.
Here is a patch:

diff --git a/doc/unshar.1 b/doc/unshar.1
index 900f71c..106cd1a 100644
--- a/doc/unshar.1
+++ b/doc/unshar.1
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ Standard input may not be a terminal.
Unshar scans the input files (typically email messages) looking for
the start of a shell archive. If no files are given, then standard
input is processed instead. It then passes each archive discovered
-through an invocation of the shell program to unpack it..Pp
+through an invocation of the shell program to unpack it.
+.PP
This program will perform its function for every file named on the command
line or every file named in a list read from stdin. The arguments or input
names must be pre\-existing files. The input list may contain comments,
Bruce Korb
2014-12-06 15:27:10 UTC
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Post by Santiago Vila
$ man unshar | grep Pp
an invocation of the shell program to unpack it..Pp This program will
I don't know what's this "Pp" supposed to mean. :-)
It is supposed to mean ".PP" (paragraph) at the start of a line. :)
Someone has been contributing a lot of improvements to the way
man pages get generated. Improvements --> bugs (until they get fixed).

I fixed the missing newline, too. Thanks. I'll bump out a new release "soon".
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