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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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 01:40:18 +0100

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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> 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.

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