Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@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.

This ultimately turned out to be due to man-db not finding "preconv".

The attached patches fixes it.

Adding preconv adds ~0.1 MiB to the groff-minimal closure size.

WDYT?