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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:24:30 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/vinum vinum.8
Message-ID:  <19990926182429.H46202@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909250939.EAA13506@mpp.pro-ns.net>; from Mike Pritchard on Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 04:39:06AM -0500
References:  <199909220132.SAA48697@freefall.freebsd.org> <199909250939.EAA13506@mpp.pro-ns.net>

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On Saturday, 25 September 1999 at  4:39:06 -0500, Mike Pritchard wrote:
>> grog        1999/09/21 18:32:21 PDT
>>
>>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_3)
>>     sbin/vinum           vinum.8
>>   Log:
>>   Fix typo:
>>
>>   Reported-by:	"Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff@mountin.net>
>
> I have an objection to this commit because it includes direct
> *roff calls.  To be more specific, it uses the ".in" directive.

Well, in so doing it's keeping to the style of the rest of the page.

> Mdoc style man pages should never use direct *roff formatting
> directives.  If mdoc is doing something wrong, then mdoc should be
> fixed.

Agreed, but I don't have time for it.

> You should not work around the problem within the man page.

I accept your viewpoint.  If you want to fix it, feel free to do so.

Greg
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