reopen 30785 Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes:
> Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: > >> Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: >> >>> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <m...@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. > > I pushed the fix as 296551a2e9310d4a030ee49530e9367e73aaeecf. This patch caused `man` to segfault when invoked outside `guix environment`(!) so I reverted it for now. To be continued...
