Subject: Re: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 01:40:18 +0100

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]> 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.

I've tried running groff and nroff manually on rofi.1, but haven't been
able to reproduce the duplicate sections.