svn commit: r274925 - in head: lib/libc/sys lib/libdpv sbin/ipfw share/man/man4 share/man/man4/man4.arm share/man/man9 sys/boot/common sys/boot/i386/gptzfsboot usr.bin/dpv

[Ronald Klop]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:23:17 +0100, Joel Dahl <joel at vnode.se> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:04:12PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 09:00:00PM +0000, Joel Dahl wrote:
>> > Author: joel (doc committer)
>> > Date: Sun Nov 23 21:00:00 2014
>> > New Revision: 274925
>> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/274925
>> >
>> > Log:
>> >   Misc mdoc fixes:
>> >
>> >   - Remove superfluous paragraph macros.
>> >   - Remove/fix empty or incorrect macros.
>> >   - Sort sections into conventional order.
>> >   - Terminate quoted strings properly.
>> >   - Remove EOL whitespace.
>> >
>> > Modified:
>> >   head/lib/libc/sys/poll.2
>> >   head/lib/libdpv/dpv.3
>> >   head/sbin/ipfw/ipfw.8
>> >   head/share/man/man4/gre.4
>> >   head/share/man/man4/man4.arm/cgem.4
>> >   head/share/man/man4/me.4
>> >   head/share/man/man4/netmap.4
>> >   head/share/man/man9/get_cyclecount.9
>> >   head/share/man/man9/malloc.9
>> >   head/share/man/man9/sleepqueue.9
>> >   head/sys/boot/common/zfsloader.8
>> >   head/sys/boot/i386/gptzfsboot/gptzfsboot.8
>> >   head/usr.bin/dpv/dpv.1
>> >
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> > +.Sh AUTHORS
>> > +This manual page was written by
>> > +.An Andriy Gapon Aq avg at FreeBSD.org .
>>                        ^ There should be a Mt here to properly render  
>> in html
>>
>> I just picked one in the middle of this commit. In general every mail  
>> on any
>> manpage Mt should be used.
>
> Sure. Feel free to go over our manpages and fix them. It's a minor issue.
>
> And while we're on the subject, there's a bit of background to this  
> commit.
> Back in 2012 I started fixing mandoc lint errors/warnings in our manpage
> collection (excluding stuff from contrib/ and gnu/ etc.). I think I got  
> them
> down from around ~4000 issues to almost zero. Quite a few manpages didn't
> even work with mandoc at the time, due to how many syntactical mdoc  
> errors
> they had. The situation is still good, but I re-ran my scripts yesterday  
> and
> found a slew of new warnings. I fixed a few obvious ones, but if someone  
> with
> more time on his hands wants to help, please go ahead. A good starting  
> point
> would probably the netmap.4 or ctl.conf.5 manpages, they seem to generate
> quite a few warnings.
>
> I'd also be grateful if everyone ran mandoc -Tlint on their manpages  
> before
> committing. :-)
>

A commit hook does magic for these kind of things. ;-)