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Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:22:03 +0100
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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Hi,

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

> On 2018-03-13 22:34, ludo@gnu.org wrote:
>>> 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 =E2=80=98knot.conf.5.gz=E2=80=99, but I d=
on=E2=80=99t have
>> tangible evidence.
>
> Yup, that's about as far as I got before giving up and submitting to
> the wisdom of the crowd. We need someone who knows something =E2=80=94
> anything =E2=80=94 about man pages, or someone who can reproduce this on
> another distro. I had no luck searching for similar bug reports.
>
> ...or do you mean with the knot.conf page *specifically*, as opposed
> to the rofi one? Is your suspicion based on something you saw in
> there?

I didn=E2=80=99t check the rofi one.  The knot.conf one is generated by some
=E2=80=9Cdocutils=E2=80=9D, a reStructuredText thing, which is where my unf=
ounded
suspicion comes from.  :-)

We=E2=80=99d need to analyze the nroff =E2=80=9Ccode=E2=80=9D in there to u=
nderstand what=E2=80=99s
going on.

> For the record: apparently this doesn't happen on Debian, according to
> some fellow on IRC named =E2=80=98civodul=E2=80=99. There goes my brief h=
ope that this
> was an (exclusively) upstream problem after all.

I think I know that person.  ;-)  Perhaps we could check how Debian
generates the page.  Do they have a patch for =E2=80=9Cdocutils=E2=80=9D?  =
Should we try
with a different version to see if that helps?

Cheers,
Ludo=E2=80=99.