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has caused the Debian Bug report #760536,
regarding groff: nroff -man can't produce full man page output
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Package: groff
Version: 1.20.1-10
Severity: normal
The command:
zcat /usr/share/man/man3/printf.3.gz| nroff -man
produces this as the last line:
e, E The double argument is rounded and converted in the style
which obviously is not the end of the file. The man file hasn't changed
since 2010, so something else must be wrong. Can you reproduce this failure?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.10
APT prefers squeeze-lts
APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500,
'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages groff depends on:
ii dpkg 1.15.11 Debian package management system
ii groff-base 1.20.1-10 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.11.3-4+deb6u1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4+squeeze1 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxmu6 2:1.0.5-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1+squeeze1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
Versions of packages groff recommends:
ii ghostscript 8.71~dfsg2-9+squeeze1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii imagemagick 8:6.6.0.4-3+squeeze4 image manipulation programs
ii libpaper1 1.1.24 library for handling paper charact
ii netpbm 2:10.0-12.2+b1 Graphics conversion tools between
ii psutils 1.17-27 A collection of PostScript documen
groff suggests no packages.
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Bruce Momjian wrote in 2014:
> I started thinking this morning that I have a
> /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/troffrc file that I added some macros to
> years ago, and removing my troffrc changes fixes the problem, so I
> think we can close the bug report. I am right now trying to figure
> out exactly what it is in my troffrc that are causing this, but the
> bug is certainly mine.
Closing per submitter.
Regards,
Branden
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