[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#432848: mailman: man page formatting screwed up

[Sam Morris]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.9-7
Severity: normal

Many man pages in the mailman package do not format correctly on a
terminal. For example, list_lists(8) contains:

OPTIONS
       -a, --advertised
              List only those mailing lists that are publically advertised

       -V domain, --virtual-host-overview=domain
              List  only  those mailing lists that are homed to the given vir‐
              tual domain.  This only works if the VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW vari‐
              able  is  set.   -b, --bare Displays only the list name, with no
              description.  -h, --help Print a small help text and exit

Note that the -b and -h options sppear to be part of the definition for -V.
Also the descriptions for these options are displayed in bold.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (540, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.102        Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2                     2.2.3-4      Next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-mpm-worker [httpd]  2.2.3-4      High speed threaded model for Apac
ii  cron                        3.0pl1-100   management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.11       Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4                       4.63-17      metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tr 4.63-17      exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  logrotate                   3.7.1-3      Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  pwgen                       2.05-1       Automatic Password generation
ii  python                      2.4.4-2      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support              0.5.6        automated rebuilding support for p
ii  ucf                         2.0020       Update Configuration File: preserv

mailman recommends no packages.

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