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bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated


From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:24:46 +0100
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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
  $

There's also some stderr...

<standard input>:25: error: end of file while defining macro `UNINDENT'

...but I think that's just a symptom of the input being cut short; man rofi(1) prints no such error yet suffers the same fate.

The affected man pages themselves are not truncated, nor do they repeat:

  $ zgrep '\.SH' `man -w knot.conf`
  .SH NAME
  .SH DESCRIPTION
  .SH COMMENTS
  .SH INCLUDES
  .SH MODULE SECTION
  .SH SERVER SECTION
  .SH KEY SECTION
  .SH ACL SECTION
  .SH CONTROL SECTION
  .SH STATISTICS SECTION
  .SH KEYSTORE SECTION
  .SH SUBMISSION SECTION
  .SH POLICY SECTION
  .SH REMOTE SECTION
  .SH TEMPLATE SECTION
  .SH ZONE SECTION
  .SH LOGGING SECTION
  .SH AUTHOR
  .SH COPYRIGHT
  $

However, even longer man pages such as bash(1) render without fail, so there might be something special about the two examples above that triggers this behaviour.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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