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bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
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Marius Bakke |
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bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated |
Date: |
Sat, 05 May 2018 23:40:51 +0200 |
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Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Guix,
>>
>> Perhaps he's just getting old, but our man has a tendency to forget
>> where he was, start over from the beginning, and repeat himself several
>> times:
>>
>> $ guix package -i knot rofi
>> $ man 5 knot.conf | grep -E '^(NAME|DESCRIPTION)'
>> NAME
>> DESCRIPTION
>> NAME
>> DESCRIPTION
>> NAME
>> DESCRIPTION
>> NAME
>> DESCRIPTION
>> NAME
>> $
>
> One thing rofi.1 and knot.conf.5 have in common is that they are both
> unicode. Whereas working pages are ASCII.
This ultimately turned out to be due to man-db not finding "preconv".
The attached patches fixes it.
Adding preconv adds ~0.1 MiB to the groff-minimal closure size.
WDYT?
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