Package: rpm
Version: 4.4.1-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hello,
Redhat distributes UTF-8 man pages. On Debian, the man pages must be
encoded according to the charset defined in man-db (src/encodings.c).
That is to say EUC-JP, EUC-KR and KOI8-R respectively for the Japanese,
Korean and Russian man pages.
I don't think there is a problem with the other languages.
The attached patch adds a debian/recode_manpages.sh script, called in the
binary-arch: rule of debian/rules.
Presently,
LANG=ja LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 man -Lja rpm > /dev/null
returns tons of
"warning: can't find numbered character"
Recoding the manpage fixes these warnings.
Best Regards,
--
Nekral
diff -rauN ../orig/rpm-4.4.1/debian/recode_manpages.sh
./rpm-4.4.1/debian/recode_manpages.sh
--- ../orig/rpm-4.4.1/debian/recode_manpages.sh 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000
+0100
+++ ./rpm-4.4.1/debian/recode_manpages.sh 2006-01-25 22:04:54.000000000
+0100
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Upstream man pages are UTF-8encoded.
+# The man pages need to be recoded according to the encodings used in Debian.
+# (defined in src/encodings.c in man-db)
+
+echo "ja EUC-JP
+ ko EUC-KR
+ ru KOI8-R" |
+while read lang encoding
+do
+ echo "recoding lang: $lang to $encoding"
+ for page in debian/tmp/usr/share/man/$lang/man[1-8]/*
+ do
+ echo "recoding $page"
+ iconv -t $encoding -f UTF8 < $page > $page.recoded
+ mv $page.recoded $page
+ done
+done
+
diff -rauN ../orig/rpm-4.4.1/debian/rules ./rpm-4.4.1/debian/rules
--- ../orig/rpm-4.4.1/debian/rules 2006-01-25 21:23:57.000000000 +0100
+++ ./rpm-4.4.1/debian/rules 2006-01-26 00:53:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@
chmod 644 debian/tmp/usr/lib/rpm/Specfile.pm
chmod -R 644 debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmdb/
chmod 644 debian/tmp/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpm/__init__.py
+ # Recode the (translated) manpages according to the encoding expected
+ # on Debian
+ /bin/sh debian/recode_manpages.sh
# rpmdiff.cgi is crap that I don't want installed
dh_install -X rpmdiff.cgi
dh_link usr/share/man/man8/rpm.8 usr/share/man/man8/rpmdb.8 \
