[PATCH] xorg.conf.man: Fix bad whatis entry.

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Nov 2 07:45:17 PDT 2011


On 11/02/11 04:44, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Debian's QA tool “lintian” reported a bad whatis entry for the
> xorg.conf(.d) manpages.
>
> It comes with the following pointers:
>    For manual pages that document multiple programs, functions, files, or
>    other things, the part before "\-" should list each separated by a
>    comma and a space. […]
>
>    Refer to the lexgrog(1) manual page, the groff_man(7) manual page, and
>    the groff_mdoc(7) manual page for details.
>
> Indeed, the current situation is:
>    $ whatis xorg.conf; whatis xorg.conf.d
>    xorg.conf (5)        - (unknown subject)
>    xorg.conf.d (5)      - (unknown subject)
>
> With this patch:
>    xorg.conf (5)        - configuration files for Xorg X server
>    xorg.conf.d (5)      - configuration files for Xorg X server
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Brulebois<kibi at debian.org>
> ---
>   hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man b/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
> index 996798f..5790185 100644
> --- a/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
> +++ b/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>   .ds q \N'34'
>   .TH __xconfigfile__ __filemansuffix__ __vendorversion__
>   .SH NAME
> -__xconfigfile__ and __xconfigdir__ \- configuration files for
> +__xconfigfile__, __xconfigdir__ \- configuration files for
>   __xservername__ X server
>   .SH INTRODUCTION
>   .B __xservername__

Reviewed-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>

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