automount.8: "Macro ".RE" without ".RS"; some spelling corrections to the manual

Bug #1077483 reported by Bjarnig Ingi Gislason
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
autofs5 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Software: autofs5
Version: 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu5.1
File: automount.8
Patch: Yes

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

groff: automount.8: /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/an-old.tmac:592: backtrace: macro `RE'
<groff: automount.8>:102: warning: number register `an-saved-margin1' not defined
groff: automount.8: /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/an-old.tmac:593: backtrace: macro `RE'
<groff: automount.8>:102: warning: number register `an-saved-prevailing-indent1' not defined

  Some spelling corrections

  Hypen changed to minus (dash).

#
  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: Sat Nov 10 21:21:21 2012
Dependencies:
 coreutils 7.4-2ubuntu3
 debconf 1.5.28ubuntu4
 debconf-i18n 1.5.28ubuntu4
 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
 libc-bin 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.11
 libc6 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.11
 libgcc1 1:4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1
 liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6
 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
 perl-base 5.10.1-8ubuntu2.1
 tzdata 2012e-0ubuntu0.10.04
 ucf 3.0025
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: autofs5 5.0.4-3.1ubuntu5.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
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: autofs5
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64

  Patch is in the attachment.

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Bjarnig Ingi Gislason (bjarniig) wrote :
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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

This bug is present in Debian too. So it would be best fixed in Debian, and then Ubuntu will pick it up on the next merge.

Would you mind filing a bug with Debian please?

Even better would be to file this directly upstream, but I'm having trouble locating an appropriate place for you. The README lists http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs which appears to be dead, and the package states http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/ which is available but has no patch submission information. The Debian maintainer should be able to help you further with this.

Changed in autofs5 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: needs-upstream-report
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