Re: Errors in man pages

[Gavin Smith]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 05:46:25PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Finally the issues I'm reporting have accumulated over time and are
> not always discovered by me, so sometimes my description of the
> problem my be a bit limited - do not hesitate to ask so we can clarify
> them.

I appreciate you taking the effort to pass these issues on.

The issues you are reporting all appear to involve wrapping text
with "I<" and ">".  I do not know what this does but assume that it is
changing the font used or marking that text as having a particular
purpose.  It is not possible to add markup to this text as the man
pages are automatically generated by the help2man program from the
--help output of the programs in question, and man page markup would
be inappropriate for such output.  We do not maintain man pages separately,
due to this being extra work.

If we were to make these changes it would require filtering either the
output from or the input to the help2man program, and integrating this
with the package build system.  This is not a priority for me, but I'd
be open to somebody else doing the work for it.