Bug 1688744

Created attachment 1543998 [details]
Patch to patch the patch

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1688740 +++

The coreutils-6.10-manpages.patch screws up the formatting of the man page (and the note it adds to the --help output is not proper English anyway).

The rendered man page looks like:

       -t, --text
              read in text mode (default)

              Note: There is no difference between binary and text mode option
              on GNU system.  -z, --zero           end each output  line  with
              NUL, not newline,

              and disable file name escaping


Note that the -z option is not a new item, but continues on from the note, and there's a spurious line break after "not newline,". In the troff source the problem is a missing .TP macro and a missing newline, but the man page appears to be generated by help2man so it's not as simple as fixing the troff.

Please either drop the patch completely (it seems unnecessary to me) or fix the formatting and the grammar.

I've attached a patch for the patch, which moves the "Note:" to the end, so it doesn't mess up the formatting of the --text and --zero options. I also fixed the grammar.