[Bug 1077714] Re: checksendmail.8: Warnings from groff; some corrections for the manual

[David Henningsson]

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.)

** Patch added: "sendmail.debdiff"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sendmail/+bug/1077714/+attachment/3432984/+files/sendmail.debdiff

** Changed in: sendmail (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: sendmail (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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

Status in “sendmail” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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

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