bug#30785: closed (Man pages truncated, repeated)

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> Man pages truncated, repeated
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> Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:24:46 +0100
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> Guix,
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> 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 
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>   $ guix package -i knot rofi
>   $ man 5 knot.conf | grep -E '^(NAME|DESCRIPTION)'
>   NAME
>   DESCRIPTION
>   NAME
>   DESCRIPTION
>   NAME
>   DESCRIPTION
>   NAME
>   DESCRIPTION
>   NAME
>   $
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> There's also some stderr...
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>   <standard input>:25: error: end of file while defining macro 
> `UNINDENT'
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> ...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.
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> The affected man pages themselves are not truncated, nor do they repeat:
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>   $ 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
>   $
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> However, even longer man pages such as bash(1) render without fail, so 
> there might be something special about the two examples above that 
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> Kind regards,
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> Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.
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Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Keeping this bug open till we patch groff on core-updates.

This was done in 5466e82a1e61349e5a3f9726a03874e4f9817226.

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