PowerShell / PowerShell/PSResourceGet

`Update-PSModuleManifest` causes `PSAvoidTrailingWhitespace`

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Description

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Steps to reproduce

When updating the module manifest with items that do not fit on a single line, the Update-PSModuleManifest leaves a trailing whitespace behind the comma.

New-ModuleManifest -Path ModuleManifest.psd1
Update-PSModuleManifest -Path ModuleManifest.psd1 -FunctionsToExport @(
  "Compress-PSResource",
  "Find-PSResource",
  "Get-InstalledPSResource",
  "Get-PSResourceRepository",
  "Get-PSScriptFileInfo",
  "Import-PSGetRepository",
  "Install-PSResource",
  "New-PSScriptFileInfo",
  "Publish-PSResource",
  "Register-PSResourceRepository",
  "Reset-PSResourceRepository",
  "Save-PSResource",
  "Set-PSResourceRepository",
  "Test-PSScriptFileInfo",
  "Uninstall-PSResource",
  "Unregister-PSResourceRepository",
  "Update-PSModuleManifest",
  "Update-PSResource",
  "Update-PSScriptFileInfo"
)
Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer ModuleManifest.psd1 | Should -be NullOrEmpty
Expected behavior
No analyzer violations
Actual behavior
InvalidResult:
Line |
   1 | Invoke-ScriptAnalyzer ModuleManifest.psd1 | Should -be NullOrEmpty
     | Expected 'NullOrEmpty', but got @(Line has trailing whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace, Line has
     | trailing whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace, Line has trailing
     | whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace, Line has trailing whitespace).
Error details

Environment data
ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                ----------------
Binary     1.2.0                 Microsoft.PowerShell.PSResourceGet  {Compress-PSResource, Find-PSResource, Get-In…

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.6.4
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.6.4
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.26100
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.4
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0
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