[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Open Mpi 1.2.6 and several dozen new Debian man page woes

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:50:56PM -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2008, at 10:15 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> >| W: openmpi-doc: manpage-has-errors-from-man  usr/share/man/man3/ 
> >MPI_Comm_f2c.3.gz 5: warning [p 1, 0.8i]: can't break line
> >
> >This one we had before -- line 5 is 200 characters long.  Didn't SUN  
> >say this
> >page can possibly be removed alltogether>
> 
> 
> Thanks -- I applied the patch you supplied for all the other fixes (to  
> the OMPI trunk so far).  I believe that this is the last issue, right?
> 
> No, we don't really want to delete this man page.  It's one page that  
> covers a whole pile of nearly-identical functions.  What's the line  
> limit?  Or, is it sufficient to put spaces after each comma?  (I seem  

Good idea. The Groff/troff error is after all about 'cannot break line'. Spaces may cure that.

I just copied the page to a tempfile, handedited the spaces in and
tried 'man -l /tmp/MPI_Comm_f2c.3' which looks considerably better,
and linebroken, than the default.

I'd say please commit this.

Dirk

> to recall that something was reading that comma-delimited list and it  
> wouldn't work to put in spaces, but I don't remember)
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Squyres
> Cisco Systems
> 

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