[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#878171: Bug#878171: vmdebootstrap: misformatted man page

Lars Wirzenius liw at liw.fi
Tue Oct 10 19:55:03 UTC 2017


> Here's how vmdebootstrap's manpage is formatted:
> 
>   1:| VMDEBOOTSTRAP(8)                   System Manager's Manual                  VMDEBOOTSTRAP(8)
>   2:| 
>   3:| " "vmdebootstrap"
>   4:| 
>   5:| NAME
>   6:|        vmdebootstrap - install basic Debian system into virtual disk image
>   7:| 
>   8:| PURPOSE
> 
> It seems there's an extraneous line (#3).

The whole manual page is so far away from manual page conventions, it
should be rewritten from scratch, before minor mistakes are worth
considering. However, since I'd like the whole program to die, I'm
afraid I'm not interested in fixing this formatting mistake.

-- 
I want to build worthwhile things that might last. --joeyh
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