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bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated


From: Marius Bakke
Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 01:40:18 +0100
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden> 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.

I've tried running groff and nroff manually on rofi.1, but haven't been
able to reproduce the duplicate sections.

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