Subject: Re: bug#29981: 25.3; WoMan can no longer read OpenSSH man pages

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:11:59 +0200

> From: "xemdetia ." <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:32:20 -0500
> 
> Run emacs -Q --execute '(woman "ssh_config")'. System is running Debian
> 9 with openssh-server package 7.4p1-10+deb9u2. It's dying in
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/woman.el#n2281.

It's a known problem, and the error message is self-explanatory, I
think:

> woman-decode-region: WoMan can only format man pages written with the usual ‘-man’ macros

Volunteers are welcome to upgrade woman.el so that it can handle
modern man pages with tricky macros.