Package: mailcap Version: 3.70+nmu1 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
here are some notes and editorial fixes for the manual. The patch is in the attachment. -.- The difference between the formatted outputs can be seen with: nroff -man <file1> > <out1> nroff -man <file2> > <out2> diff -u <out1> <out2> and for groff, using "printf '%s\n%s\n' '.kern 0' '.ss 12 0' | groff -man -Z - " instead of "nroff -man" Add the option "-t", if the file contains a table. Read the output of "diff -u" with "less -R" or similar. -.-. If "man" (man-db) is used to check the manual for warnings, the following must be set: The option "-warnings=w" The environmental variable: export MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes (or any non-empty value) or (produce only warnings): export MANROFFOPT="-ww -z" export MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes (or any non-empty value) -.-. Output from "mandoc -T lint edit.1": mandoc: edit.1:7:83: STYLE: input text line longer than 80 bytes: run-mailcap, view, s... mandoc: edit.1:25:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: PP after SH mandoc: edit.1:83:81: STYLE: input text line longer than 80 bytes: A temporary symbolic... -.-. Input file is edit.1. Use the correct macro for the font change of a single argument or split the argument into two. 64:.IR cat 74:.BI \-\-debug 77:.BI \-\-nopager 80:.BI \-\-norun -.-. Change a HYPHEN-MINUS (code 0x55, 2D) to a minus (\-), if in front of a name for an option, or is a symbol for standard input. 46:(.Z). A filename of "-" can be used to mean "standard input", but -.-. Add a comma (or \&) after "e.g." and "i.e.", or use English words (man-pages(7). Abbreviation points should be protected against being interpreted as an end of sentence, if they are not, and that independent of the current place on the line. 29:its encoding (e.g. compression), and filename together, separated by -.-. Split lines longer than 80 characters into two or more lines. Appropriate break points are the end of a sentence and a subordinate clause; after punctuation marks. edit.1: line 7 length 83 run-mailcap, view, see, edit, compose, print \- execute programs via entries in the edit.1: line 83 length 81 A temporary symbolic link to the file is opened if the file name matches the Perl -.-. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.4.13-1 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages mailcap depends on: ii media-types 10.1.0 ii perl 5.36.0-9 Versions of packages mailcap recommends: ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b1 ii file 1:5.45-2 ii xz-utils 5.4.4-0.1 mailcap suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
--- edit.1 2023-09-19 02:11:08.000000000 +0000 +++ edit.1.new 2023-09-19 02:19:22.000000000 +0000 @@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ .\" .TH RUN-MAILCAP 1 "1st Jan 2008" "Debian Project" "Run Mailcap Programs" .SH NAME -run-mailcap, view, see, edit, compose, print \- execute programs via entries in the +run-mailcap, view, see, edit, compose, print \- execute programs via +entries in the .I mailcap file .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -22,11 +23,10 @@ versions are just aliases that default t print actions (respectively). .SH DESCRIPTION -.PP .B run-mailcap (or any of its aliases) will use the given action to process each mime-type/file in turn. Each file is specified as its mime-type, -its encoding (e.g. compression), and filename together, separated by +its encoding (e.g., compression), and filename together, separated by colons. If the mime-type is omitted, an attempt to determine the type is made by trying to match the file's extension with those in the .I mime.types @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ All options are in the form --<opt>=<val .BI \-\-action=<action> Performs the specified action on the files. Valid actions are .IR view , -.IR cat +.I cat (uses only "copiousoutput" rules and sends output to STDOUT) , .IR compose , .IR composetyped , @@ -71,21 +71,24 @@ and If no action is specified, the action will be determined by how the program was called. .TP -.BI \-\-debug +.B \-\-debug Turns on extra information to find out what is happening. .TP -.BI \-\-nopager +.B \-\-nopager Ignores any "copiousoutput" directive and sends output to STDOUT. .TP -.BI \-\-norun +.B \-\-norun Displays the found command without actually executing it. .SH SECURITY -A temporary symbolic link to the file is opened if the file name matches the Perl -regular expression "[^[:alnum:],.:/@%^+=_-]", in order to protect from the -injection of shell commands, and to make sure that the name can always be -displayed in the current locale. In addition, the file is opened using its -absolute path to prevent the injection of command-line arguments, for instance -using file names starting with dashes. +A temporary symbolic link to the file is opened if the file name +matches the Perl regular expression "[^[:alnum:],.:/@%^+=_-]", +in order to protect from the injection of shell commands, +and to make sure that the name can always be displayed in the current +locale. +In addition, +the file is opened using its absolute path to prevent the injection of command-line +arguments, +for instance using file names starting with dashes. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR file "(1)" .BR mailcap "(5)"
