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Man pages truncated, repeated

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:34:43 +0100

Hello,

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

> 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)'

[...]

> 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.

I suspect something wrong with ‘knot.conf.5.gz’, but I don’t have
tangible evidence.

Ludo’.

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