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authorBjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>2018-08-14 00:14:58 +0200
committerGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2018-08-30 03:14:07 +0200
commit2a9a5392718371ad29605652fe55dc149fa4867c (patch)
tree6d10f485941f81edd36eb12ea60e3b0e97da7374 /man
parenteacbf48370ce977d7bc8e9af027afd0b79ef35a0 (diff)
downloaddpkg-2a9a5392718371ad29605652fe55dc149fa4867c.tar.gz
man: Fix markup
Closes: #900033, #900035, #900040 Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/dpkg-deb.man8
-rw-r--r--man/dpkg-split.man4
-rw-r--r--man/dpkg-trigger.man10
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-deb.man b/man/dpkg-deb.man
index f843f0a83..2bb5c8dfd 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-deb.man
+++ b/man/dpkg-deb.man
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ the files in it will be put in the binary package's control
information area.
Unless you specify
-.BR \-\-nocheck ", " dpkg\-deb "
+.BR \-\-nocheck ", " dpkg\-deb
will read
.B DEBIAN/control
and parse it. It will check the file for syntax errors and other problems,
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ subdirectory of the specified directory (since dpkg 1.16.1).
The target directory (but not its parents) will be created if necessary.
The input archive is not (currently) processed sequentially, so reading
-it from standard input («\fB-\fP») is \fBnot\fP supported.
+it from standard input («\fB\-\fP») is \fBnot\fP supported.
.TP
.BR \-\-ctrl\-tarfile " \fIarchive\fP"
Extracts the control data from a binary package and sends it to standard
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ necessary.
.BR \-? ", " \-\-help
Show the usage message and exit.
.TP
-.BR \-\-version
+.B \-\-version
Show the version and exit.
.
.SH OPTIONS
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ now obsolete; its only use is when building packages to be parsed by
versions of dpkg older than 0.93.76 (September 1995), which was released
as i386 a.out only.
.TP
-.BR \-\-nocheck
+.B \-\-nocheck
Inhibits
.BR "dpkg\-deb \-\-build" 's
usual checks on the proposed contents of an archive. You can build
diff --git a/man/dpkg-split.man b/man/dpkg-split.man
index 8f7fdde43..6d3d23d45 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-split.man
+++ b/man/dpkg-split.man
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ specified then only parts of the relevant package(s) are deleted.
.BR \-? ", " \-\-help
Show the usage message and exit.
.TP
-.BR \-\-version
+.B \-\-version
Show the version and exit.
.
.SH OPTIONS
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ message, to allow programs such as
to cope with both split and unsplit packages without producing
spurious messages.
.TP
-.BR \-\-msdos
+.B \-\-msdos
Forces the output filenames generated by
.B \-\-split
to be msdos-compatible.
diff --git a/man/dpkg-trigger.man b/man/dpkg-trigger.man
index f086f124d..65fdd9ad8 100644
--- a/man/dpkg-trigger.man
+++ b/man/dpkg-trigger.man
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Unrecognized trigger name syntaxes are an error for \fBdpkg\-trigger\fP.
.
.SH COMMANDS
.TP
-.BR \-\-check\-supported
+.B \-\-check\-supported
Check if the running \fBdpkg\fP supports triggers (usually called from a
postinst). Will exit \fB0\fP if a triggers-capable \fBdpkg\fP has run,
or \fB1\fP with an error message to stderr if not. Normally, however,
@@ -59,26 +59,26 @@ Show the version and exit.
Change the location of the \fBdpkg\fR database. The default location is
\fI%ADMINDIR%\fP.
.TP
-.BR \-\-by\-package=\fIpackage\fR
+.BI \-\-by\-package= package
Override trigger awaiter (normally set by \fBdpkg\fP through the
\fBDPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE\fP environment variable of the maintainer scripts,
naming the package to which the script belongs, and this will be used
by default).
.TP
-.BR \-\-no\-await
+.B \-\-no\-await
This option arranges that the calling package T (if any) need not await
the processing of this trigger; the interested package(s) I, will not be
added to T's trigger processing awaited list and T's status is unchanged.
T may be considered installed even though I may not yet have processed
the trigger.
.TP
-.BR \-\-await
+.B \-\-await
This option does the inverse of \fB\-\-no\-await\fP (since dpkg 1.17.21).
If the interested package has declared a “noawait” directive, then this
option will not be effective.
It is currently the default behavior.
.TP
-.BR \-\-no\-act
+.B \-\-no\-act
Just test, do not actually change anything.
.
.SH EXIT STATUS