Bug 227296 - ps manual page has broken formatting
Summary: ps manual page has broken formatting
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: procps
Version: 6
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-04 22:33 UTC by Matt Wette
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-02-05 08:31:27 UTC
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Description Matt Wette 2007-02-04 22:33:17 UTC
Description of problem:
Typing "man ps" in man page returns document with indentation
missing below headers.  This does not happen with other man
pages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
procps-3.2.7-8


How reproducible:
type "man ps" in a gnome-terminal or xterm


Steps to Reproduce:
1. "man ps"
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
NAME
ps - report a snapshot of the current processes.

SYNOPSIS
ps [options]

DESCRIPTION
ps displays information about a selection of the active processes. If you want
a repetitive update of the selection and the displayed information, use top(1)
instead.



Expected results:
NAME
       ls - list directory contents

SYNOPSIS
       ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       List  information  about  the FILEs (the current directory by default).
       Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort.




Additional info:

Comment 1 Karel Zak 2007-02-05 08:31:27 UTC
Yes, the ps man page ignores standard conventions. But I think this should be
fixed by upstream rather that in a distribution.

The upstream maintainer added to CC.


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