GNU bug report logs - #8128
M-x man now just prints truncated tops of raw nroff

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: jidanni <at> jidanni.org

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:38:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug, wontfix

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to owner <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:
bug#8128; Package emacs. (Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:38:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: M-x man now just prints truncated tops of raw nroff
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:36:43 +0800

M-x man now just prints e.g.,

gdalinfo(1)                                                        gdalinfo(1)

NAME
       gdalinfo - .TH "gdalinfo" 1 "Thu Feb 24 2011" "GDAL"

and that is it, on some man pages. On others e.g., man cat, man who, all
is well.
Information forwarded to owner <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 8128 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:
bug#8128; Package emacs. (Sun, 27 Feb 2011 08:58:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #8 received at 8128 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: submit <at> bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#615535: gdalinfo man page defective
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:55:10 +0800

X-debbugs-Cc: 8128 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Package: gdal-bin
Version: 1.7.3-2
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/gdalinfo.1.gz

Gentlemen, this man page is defective.

.TH "gdalinfo" 1 "Thu Feb 24 2011" "GDAL" \" -*- nroff -*-
.ad l
.nh
.SH NAME
gdalinfo \- .TH "gdalinfo" 1 "Thu Feb 24 2011" "GDAL" \" -*- nroff -*-
.ad l
.nh

It makes

NAME
       gdalinfo - .TH "gdalinfo" 1 "Thu Feb 24 2011" "GDAL"

NAME
       gdalinfo - lists information about a raster dataset
etc.

What is worse, GNU Emacs M-x Man can't deal with it almost at all!
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 8128-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#8128: gdalinfo man page defective
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:27:43 -0400

Not an Emacs issue. Buggy man page, since fixed upstream.
bug No longer marked as found in versions 1.7.3-2. Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 09 Jul 2011 18:29:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:24:09 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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