[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Open Mpi 1.2.6 and several dozen new Debian man page woes
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd at debian.org
Tue Jun 3 17:01:45 UTC 2008
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:50:56PM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> >| W: openmpi-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man3/
> >MPI_Comm_f2c.3.gz 5: warning [p 1, 0.8i]: can't break line
> >
> >This one we had before -- line 5 is 200 characters long. Didn't SUN
> >say this
> >page can possibly be removed alltogether>
>
>
> Thanks -- I applied the patch you supplied for all the other fixes (to
> the OMPI trunk so far). I believe that this is the last issue, right?
>
> No, we don't really want to delete this man page. It's one page that
> covers a whole pile of nearly-identical functions. What's the line
> limit? Or, is it sufficient to put spaces after each comma? (I seem
Good idea. The Groff/troff error is after all about 'cannot break line'. Spaces may cure that.
I just copied the page to a tempfile, handedited the spaces in and
tried 'man -l /tmp/MPI_Comm_f2c.3' which looks considerably better,
and linebroken, than the default.
I'd say please commit this.
Dirk
> to recall that something was reading that comma-delimited list and it
> wouldn't work to put in spaces, but I don't remember)
>
> --
> Jeff Squyres
> Cisco Systems
>
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