• Bug#1109800: superfluous indents and newlines in the manpage for sysexi

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Peter_M=C3=BCller?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 24 02:40:02 2025
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    Package: manpages-dev
    Version: 6.03-2

    Open an xterm (and if you wish, make it full screen) and issue

    $ man sysexits.h

    From line 9, observe this; cf. the attachment:

    «
    SYNOPSIS
    #include <sysexits.h>

    #define EX_OK 0 /* successful termination */

    #define EX__BASE 64 /* base value for error messages */

    #define EX_USAGE 64 /* command line usage error */
    #define EX_DATAERR 65 /* data format error */
    #define EX_NOINPUT 66 /* cannot open input */
    #define EX_NOUSER 67 /* addressee unknown */
    #define EX_NOHOST 68 /* host name unknown */
    #define EX_UNAVAILABLE 69 /* service unavailable */
    #define EX_SOFTWARE 70 /* internal software error */
    #define EX_OSERR 71 /* system error (e.g., can't fork) */
    #define EX_OSFILE 72 /* critical OS file missing */
    #define EX_CANTCREAT 73 /* can't create (user) output file */
    #define EX_IOERR 74 /* input/output error */
    #define EX_TEMPFAIL 75 /* temp failure; user is invited to retry */
    #define EX_PROTOCOL 76 /* remote error in protocol */
    #define EX_NOPERM 77 /* permission denied */
    #define EX_CONFIG 78 /* configuration error */

    #define EX__MAX ... /* maximum listed value */

    DESCRIPTION
    »

    Notice the additional newlines and indents before “#define EX__BASE”, “#define EX_USAGE”, and “#define EX__MAX”. If there is any deep sense in such a formatting, it's not immediately visible. I expect that the superfluous indents and the new
    lines are removed.

    Gratefully,
    Peter
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