[gpm] Fwd: problems in one or more man pages you maintain

[Alessandro Rubini]

Just received this message.

> From: esr (at) thyrsus com
> Subject: problems in one or more man pages you maintain
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:56:28 -0500

> This is automatically generated email about problems in a man page for which
> you appear to be responsible.  If you are not the right person or list, tell
> me and I will attempt to correct my database.
> 
> See http://catb.org/~esr/doclifter/problems.html for details on how and
> why these patches were generated.  Feel free to email me with any questions.
> 
> Note: This patch does not change the mod date of the manual page.  You
> may wish to do that by hand.
> 
> Problems with gpm-types.7:
> 
> 1. Missing or garbled name section.  The most common form of garbling
> is a missing - or extra -. Or your manual page may have been generated
> by a tool that doesn't emit a NAME section as it should.  These
> problems make it impossible to lift the page to DocBook.  They
> can also confuse some implementations of man -k.
> 
> --- gpm-types.7	2003-02-16 19:50:16.000000000 -0500
> +++ gpm-types.7	2003-02-16 19:51:06.000000000 -0500
> @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
>  .TH GPM-TYPES 7 "July 2000"
>  .UC 4
>  .SH NAME
> -This manual page describes what pointer types (mice, tablets,
> -etc) are currently managed by gpm.
> +gpm-types \- pointer types (mice, tablets, etc.) managed by gpm.
>  .br
>  The information below is extracted from the texinfo file, which is the
>  preferred source of information.
> 
> --
>                              Eric S. Raymond