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Re: [pkg-wine-party] Bug#579890: grotty: infinite loop when processing a
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Ove Kaaven |
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Re: [pkg-wine-party] Bug#579890: grotty: infinite loop when processing a man page |
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Sat, 15 May 2010 13:11:02 +0200 |
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Colin Watson skrev:
> Thanks. Here's a reduced test case (run with 'groff -Tutf8 -mandoc'):
>
> .TH GetMIMETypeSubKeyA 3w "Jun 2009" "Wine API" "Wine API"
> .SH NAME
> \fBGetMIMETypeSubKeyA\fR (SHLWAPI.328)
> .SH NOTES
> .PP
> The base path for the key is \fB"MIME\Database\Content Type\"\fR
>
> There are two bugs here. The simpler one to fix is the bug in the
> manual page (CCed address@hidden for this). It's using \ to
> mean a literal backslash, but actually \ introduces a groff escape; \D
> emits a drawing command while \C typesets a glyph by name. This line
> should instead read:
>
> The base path for the key is \fB"MIME\eDatabase\eContent Type\"\fR
These man pages are generated by a Perl script (wine/tools/c2man.pl). I
don't know Perl. But if you open a bug report on libwine-dev-unstable or
so, I could perhaps forward it upstream or something.