Package: src:bash
Version: 5.3-1
Tags: patch
Dear bash maintainer,
the file `bash.pdf` shipped in the `bash-doc` package is empty:
$ du -hs /usr/share/doc/bash/bash.pdf
0 /usr/share/doc/bash/bash.pdf
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/bash/bash.pdf
bash-doc: /usr/share/doc/bash/bash.pdf
This is due to the fact that `bash.pdf` is generated using `groff`. but
the version of `groff` indirectly pulled in by other build dependencies
is `groff-base`, a reduced version that does not include the `pdf` driver.
Make complains about this, but this error is ignored and the shell
redirection produces an empty file that ends up being shipped in `bash-doc`.
From the build logs:
```
rm -f bash.pdf
groff -I../.././doc -man -T pdf ../.././doc/bash.1 > bash.pdf
groff: fatal error: cannot load 'DESC' description file for device 'pdf'
make[1]: [Makefile:110: bash.pdf] Error 3 (ignored)
```
You can find a patch to fix this issue as the last commit of
https://salsa.debian.org/gioele/bash/-/commits/bash-pdf
Regards,
--
Gioele Barabucci
