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[yat2m] gpg-agent manpage formatting issues
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Hello,

this was originally reported by Vincent Lefevre as https://bugs.debian.org/987647

There are three places in the gpg-agent manpage where paragraphs are not rewrapped to match the display width, this can easily be seen when displaying the manpage in a e..g. 68 char wide xterm:

       gpg-agent.conf
                This  is  the  standard  configuration file
              read by gpg-agent on
                startup.  It may contain any valid long op‐
              tion; the leading
[...]
       trustlist.txt
                This  is  the  list  of  trusted keys.  You
              should backup this file.

                Comment lines, indicated by a leading  hash
              mark, as well as empty
[...]
       Before entering a key into this file, you need to en
sure its
       authenticity.  How to do this depends on your organis
ation; your

This is not an issue with the gnupg info manual which also includes the respective source files, the problem only shows up in yat2m manpage output.

Dropping the leading whitespace like this

drop-leading-ws.diff3 KBDownload
almost fixes the bug. However the indent level of the paragraph following

# CN=Root-CA/O=Schlapphuete/L=Pullach/C=DE
!14:56:98:D3:FE:9C:CA:5A:31:6E:BC:81:D3:11:4E:00:90:A3:44:C2 S
@end smallexample
@end cartouche

is still off.

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Version
2.4.7