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Man page of loginctl is invalid troff.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>
Subject: bug#62710: closed (Re: bug#62710: Man page of loginctl is invalid
 troff.)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 02:00:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#62710: Man page of loginctl is invalid troff.

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 62710 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>
Cc: 62710-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62710: Man page of loginctl is invalid troff.
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:59:46 -0400

Hi,

Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> man loginctl prints stuff like
>
>   .SH "NAME" loginctl - Control the elogind login manager
>
>   .SH "SYNOPSIS"
>
>     .HP 216u
>
>       loginctl
>        [OPTIONS...]
>        {COMMAND}
>        [NAME...]
>
>     .PP /lib/elogind/system-shutdown
>
> Indeed zcat /run/current-system/profile/share/man/man1/loginctl.1.gz
> shows
> [...]
>   .SH "NAME"
> loginctl \- Control the elogind login manager
>
>
>   .SH "SYNOPSIS"
>
>     .HP \w'\fBloginctl\fR\ 'u
>
>       \fBloginctl\fR
>        [OPTIONS...]
>        {COMMAND}
>        [NAME...]
>
>
>
>     .PP
> /lib/elogind/system\-shutdown
>
> [...]
>
> i.e. .SH etc. are not at line beginnings and are not recognized by man.
>
> I'm using elogind-246.10:
> /gnu/store/7sq4qp09fl1pn72jw828ndm13nbpknhv-elogind-246.10/share/man/man1/loginctl.1.gz

That's due to a bug in the last release of docbook-xsl
(https://github.com/docbook/xslt10-stylesheets/issues/109).  It's fixed
on the core-updates branch by using an unreleased snapshot.  Since
elogind has 2953 dependents, we'll have to wait until this branch is
merged, which should be soon!

Closing.

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Thanks,
Maxim

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From: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Man page of loginctl is invalid troff.
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 14:08:34 +0200

Hi,

man loginctl prints stuff like

  .SH "NAME" loginctl - Control the elogind login manager

  .SH "SYNOPSIS"

    .HP 216u

      loginctl
       [OPTIONS...]
       {COMMAND}
       [NAME...]

    .PP /lib/elogind/system-shutdown

Indeed zcat /run/current-system/profile/share/man/man1/loginctl.1.gz
shows
[...]
  .SH "NAME"
loginctl \- Control the elogind login manager


  .SH "SYNOPSIS"

    .HP \w'\fBloginctl\fR\ 'u

      \fBloginctl\fR
       [OPTIONS...]
       {COMMAND}
       [NAME...]



    .PP
/lib/elogind/system\-shutdown

[...]

i.e. .SH etc. are not at line beginnings and are not recognized by man.

I'm using elogind-246.10:
/gnu/store/7sq4qp09fl1pn72jw828ndm13nbpknhv-elogind-246.10/share/man/man1/loginctl.1.gz

Martin

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