GNU bug report logs - #30785
Man pages truncated, repeated

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:26:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #161 received at 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>, 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:43:38 +0100

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

>> It alone does not fix the bug.  Only combined with Pierre's part does it fix it,
>> the part which makes man-db find groff's preconv in the first place (I don't
>> believe a patch about that was submitted yet).
>
> I can only only add my patch (well, Markus patch, really) after yours, otherwise
> it cause `man` to segfault all the time.
>
> Let me know when you've applied it on core-updates and I'll follow you.

On ‘master’ you mean?  The patch that touches ‘groff-minimal’ (not
‘groff’) can go to ‘master’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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