checksendmail.8: Warnings from groff; some corrections for the manual

Bug #1077714 reported by Bjarnig Ingi Gislason
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sendmail (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Software: sendmail-base
Version: 8.14.3-9.1ubuntu1
File: checksendmail.8
Patch: Yes

  Warnings from "GROFF_ENCODING=utf8 groff -b -ww -mandoc -z ..."

groff: checksendmail.8: mdoc warning: Empty input line #18
<groff: checksendmail.8>:123: warning: tab character in unquoted macro argument
<groff: checksendmail.8>:150: warning: tab character in unquoted macro argument

  Space at end of line rmoved

  One formatting correction (isolated 's)

#
  Output from "nroff" should (usually) have only the left margin
adjusted (".ad l"). Otherwise the space between words can be too long.

  Output for a manual should (usually) have the right margin ragged
(".ad l"), as it is not (usually) intended for a book or other
professional printing medium.

#
  Each sentence should begin in a new line.

a) The space between sentences is different between formatters.

b) Changes in one line do then not affect others, and do therefore not
appear as changed in the output of "diff".

#
  Sometimes a small change in space between a roman and an italic
character is needed (use ".RI" or ".IR" macros).

#
  Remove spaces at end of lines.

#
  Protect the last full stop (period) in abbreviations or ellipses
(with \&) if it is not at the end of a sentence.

#
  Protect the full stop (period) at the beginning of text (word) or
ellipsis.

#
  Protect a single quote (', apostrophe) (with \&) at the start of the
quoted text.

##

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 11 20:52:53 2012
Dependencies:
 adduser 3.112ubuntu1
 base-files 5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.5
 base-passwd 3.5.22
 coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu3
 debconf 1.5.28ubuntu4
 debconf-i18n 1.5.28ubuntu4
 debianutils 3.2.2
 dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.6
 findutils 4.4.2-1ubuntu1
 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1
 libacl1 2.2.49-2
 libattr1 1:2.4.44-1
 libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4ubuntu0.2
 libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.11
 libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.11
 libdb4.8 4.8.24-1ubuntu1
 libgcc1 1:4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1
 libgdbm3 1.8.3-9
 liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6
 libpam-modules 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.4
 libpam0g 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.4
 libselinux1 2.0.89-4
 libstdc++6 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1
 libtext-charwidth-perl 0.04-6
 libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-2
 libtext-wrapi18n-perl 0.06-7
 lzma 4.43-14ubuntu2
 m4 1.4.13-3
 make 3.81-7ubuntu1
 passwd 1:4.1.4.2-1ubuntu2.2
 perl 5.10.1-8ubuntu2.1 [modified: usr/bin/perldoc]
 perl-base 5.10.1-8ubuntu2.1
 perl-modules 5.10.1-8ubuntu2.1
 sensible-utils 0.0.1ubuntu3
 tzdata 2012e-0ubuntu0.10.04
 zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15ubuntu1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: sendmail-base 8.14.3-9.1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LOCPATH=/var/tmp/username/lib/locale
 LANG=is_IS.ISO-8859-1
 SHELL=/bin/csh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44~lucid1-generic 2.6.35.10
SourcePackage: sendmail
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64

  Patch is in the attachment

Tags: manpage patch
Revision history for this message
Bjarnig Ingi Gislason (bjarniig) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

The attachment "checksendmail.8.diff" of this bug report has been identified as being a patch. The ubuntu-reviewers team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review the patch. In the event that this is in fact not a patch you can resolve this situation by removing the tag 'patch' from the bug report and editing the attachment so that it is not flagged as a patch. Additionally, if you are member of the ubuntu-reviewers team please also unsubscribe the team from this bug report.

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David Henningsson (diwic) wrote :

Hi and thanks for your patch!

I've turned your patch into a debdiff so it can be easily sponsored. I hope some sponsor will deal with it soon!

(Also; this bug should be reported to Debian. But since even more serious bugs seem to be left without action for this package, I guess applying it here in short term is the right thing to do.)

Changed in sendmail (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package sendmail - 8.14.4-2.1ubuntu2

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sendmail (8.14.4-2.1ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low

  * Some man page corrections, thanks to
    Bjarnig Ingi Gislason for the patch.
    (LP: #1077714)
 -- David Henningsson <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:49:03 +0100

Changed in sendmail (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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