bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated

[Marius Bakke]

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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