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Man pages truncated, repeated

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Subject: bug#30785: closed (Re: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated)
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:14:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>, Ludovic Courtès
 <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30785-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 01:13:49 +0100

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

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

This was done in 5466e82a1e61349e5a3f9726a03874e4f9817226.

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:24:46 +0100

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
  $

There's also some stderr...

  <standard input>:25: error: end of file while defining macro 
`UNINDENT'

...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.

The affected man pages themselves are not truncated, nor do they repeat:

  $ 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
  $

However, even longer man pages such as bash(1) render without fail, so 
there might be something special about the two examples above that 
triggers this behaviour.

Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

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