Package: man2html-base Version: 1.6g-16 Severity: normal While trying to fix new warnings in xlbiff's autopkgtests with groff 1.24.0~rc1, I thought it would be simplest to use the .EX/.EE macros. groff_man(7) documents these as follows:
"Begin and end example. After .EX, filling is disabled and a constant-width (monospaced) font is selected. Calling .EE enables filling and restores the previous font." (It goes on to mention some portability limitations, although only to very conservative systems.) However, while testing this I discovered that man2html doesn't handle those macros well. It seems that it turns .nf/.fi into <pre>...</pre>, which would imply that it should do the same for .EX/.EE (perhaps in addition to selecting a constant-width font, although I wasn't able to get man2html to do anything like that in my tests). Here's a pair of test cases demonstrating the problem: $ cat a.1 .TH A 1 .SH NAME a \- test .SH DESCRIPTION .nf text .fi $ man2html a.1 [...] <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> <PRE> text </PRE> [...] $ cat b.1 .TH A 1 .SH NAME a \- test .SH DESCRIPTION .EX text .EE $ man2html b.1 [...] <H2>DESCRIPTION</H2> text [...] Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]] -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: arm64 Kernel: Linux 6.17.13+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages man2html-base depends on: ii libc6 2.42-9 man2html-base recommends no packages. Versions of packages man2html-base suggests: ii manpages 6.16-1 ii manpages-dev 6.16-1 -- no debconf information
