tags 673436 fixed-upstream
thanks
Thanks Bjarni. I've applied your patch.
Cheers,
Michael
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
<bjarn...@rhi.hi.is> wrote:
> Package: manpages
> Version: 3.27-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
>
> [Also sent to upstream, "linux-man" and "mtk.manpages"]
>
> From "man ..." ("nroff ..."):
>
> grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):1763: character above first line
> discarded
> grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):2688: character above first line
> discarded
> grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):3286: character above first line
> discarded
>
> The culprit is "Dl 0 -xxxx" (vertical line) where "xxxx" is
> one line (40 nroff units) to long. Or there is a bug in
> "grotty". "nroff" or "tbl" makes an empty line where a page
> break is.
>
> Patch:
>
> --- suffixes.7 2012-04-26 22:58:40.000000000 +0000
> +++ suffixes.7.new 2012-05-18 01:22:54.000000000 +0000
> @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
> .\" FIXME, mtk, May 2007: rendering this page yields the error:
> .\" grotty:suffixes.7:1725: character above first line discarded
> .\"
> +.\" "nroff" ("man") (or "tbl") needs a long page to avoid warnings
> +.\" from "grotty" (at imagined page breaks). Bug in grotty?
> +.if n .pl 1000v
> .TH SUFFIXES 7 2000-11-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
> .SH NAME
> suffixes \- list of file suffixes
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.5
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
> 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i586)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-45
> Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> manpages depends on no packages.
>
> manpages recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages manpages suggests:
> ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
>
> -- no debconf information
>
> --
> Bjarni I. Gislason
>
>
>
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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