bug#74107: Spurious ".IP" macros in a few coreutils 9.5 man pages

[Pádraig Brady]

On 30/10/2024 14:14, Glenn Golden wrote:
> A few man pages from coreutils 9.5 seem to have spurious ".IP" troff macros
> in several places.  Noticed in tail.1, timeout.1.  Not present in cat.1, df.1,
> du.1, ls.1, rm.1, tr.1. Did not check others.
>
> See attached screenshots of rendered pages for tail and timeout. The extra
> vertical spacings seem to be due to what appear to be spurious .IP macros.
>
> Platform/version info:
>     Arch linux, coreutils package 9.5-2 (latest), commodity x86_64 laptop.

This comes from the manual indentation present in --help output
to help delineate option descriptions.  help2man will insert a .IP
when it sees such indentation.  I'm not sure how to easily address this.
We previously discussed more programmatic alignment in --help output,
which may implicitly solve the issue.

cheers,
Pádraig