From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 15:23:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: help2man: recognise option description with smaller indent
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doc: help2man: recognise option description with smaller indent

* man/help2man: Allow for a smaller indented option description.
This smaller indentation is present in timeout --help output,
so now the line spacing in timeout.1 is more consistent.
Also having the description on a separate line with
a smaller indentation, is a more general way to present
option descriptions (and what the man page formatting uses already).
We'll be changing many utilities, especially with longer multi-line
descriptions to this new format.
---

diff --git a/man/help2man b/man/help2man
index a158c1c335..5ce8c34a3a 100755
--- a/man/help2man
+++ b/man/help2man
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ while (length)
     my $content = '';
 
     # Option with description.
-    if (s/^( {1,10}([+-]\S.*?))(?:(  +(?!-))|\n( {20,}))(\S.*)\n//)
+    if (s/^( {1,10}([+-]\S.*?))(?:(  +(?!-))|\n( {7,}))(\S.*)\n//)
     {
 	$matched .= $& if %append_match;
 	$indent = set_indent length ($4 || "$1$3");