Bug#976182: javatools: jh_build man page not formatting correctly

Wookey wookey at debian.org
Tue Dec 1 03:15:23 GMT 2020


Source: javatools
Version: 0.77
Severity: normal


man jh_build shows extra capital Is in the FILES section:
so it comes out like this:

           A file consisting of each build to perform.  One build per line where each line consists of:

             I<jarfile> I<source> [... I<source>]

Looking at the code I think that I<string> is supposed to display
"string" in an italic font, but for some reason it's not being processed
as desired, even though this seems to be working elsewhere in the
file.

podchecker said there was nothing wrong with it (except the empty
DESCRIPTION section, which should be removed or filled)

I had a go at fixing it but I've never understood nroff/groff/troff and
how that interacts with pod2man so I failed. But something is wrong
here, and it produces quite a confusing man page.



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