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bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
From: |
Marius Bakke |
Subject: |
bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated |
Date: |
Sun, 06 May 2018 15:53:59 +0200 |
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Marius Bakke <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
I pushed the fix as 296551a2e9310d4a030ee49530e9367e73aaeecf.
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