Missing space in man page "formessages"

Bug #1759986 reported by Knickers Brown
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smart-notifier (Debian)
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Bug Description

--- smart-notifier-0.28.orig/doc/smart-notifier.1
+++ smart-notifier-0.28/doc/smart-notifier.1
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ This manual page documents briefly the
 .\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and
 .\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invode bold face and italics,
 .\" respectively.
-\fBsmart-notifier\fP is a dbus service/client pair. If run without options, it starts a dbus service and listens formessages send by the client (normally started from a script in /etc/smartd/run.d). This messages are then displayed on the screen of the user running the service. This program is designed to be added to the session of the user.
+\fBsmart-notifier\fP is a dbus service/client pair. If run without options, it starts a dbus service and listens for messages send by the client (normally started from a script in /etc/smartd/run.d). This messages are then displayed on the screen of the user running the service. This program is designed to be added to the session of the user.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-\-notify

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: smart-notifier 0.28-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Thu Mar 29 21:49:10 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-03-13 (16 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180311)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: smart-notifier
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Knickers Brown (metta-crawler) wrote :
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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

Thanks for reporting and providing a patch for this issue.

I found a related issue reported in Debian, listing this and two other typos, so I have attached a bug watch.

Changed in smart-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
tags: added: bitesize manpage patch string-fix
Changed in smart-notifier (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in smart-notifier (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote :

I've just verified smart-notifier 0.28-6 on Ubuntu Groovy, and the space and a couple of other typoes are indeed fixed. Unfortunately it was a bit too late for 20.04, but it will be part of the next Ubuntu release.

Changed in smart-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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