Hello,

thanks for the patch.

Could you please patch the source file (the po4a script itself) rather than the
generated groff file?

Thanks in advance,
Mt

Le mercredi 24 juin 2026 à 23:12 +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason a écrit :
> Package: po4a
> Version: 0.74-2
> Severity: minor
> 
>   Additional remarks.
> 
>   Mails from me to "[email protected]" are no longer acknowledged.  A
> Debian maintainer told me, that he would contact the mail administrator
> about me not wanting to send bugs upstream.
> 
> -.-
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> From "/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt.gz":
> 
>   Don't file bugs upstream
> 
>    If you file a bug in Debian, don't send a copy to the upstream software
>    maintainers yourself, as it is possible that the bug exists only in
>    Debian. If necessary, the maintainer of the package will forward the
>    bug upstream.
> 
> -.-
> 
>   For forwarding bug reports to upstream see:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#forward
> 
> -.-
> 
>   "Handling bug reports" in
> http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/ch03s02.html
> 
> -.-
> 
>   I do not send reports upstream if I have to get an account there.
> The Debian maintainers have one already.
> 
>   If I get a negative (or no) response from upstream, I send henceforth
> bugs to Debian.
> 
> -.-
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
>      Checking for defects with a new version
> 
> test-[g|n]roff -mandoc -t -K utf8 -rF0 -rHY=0 -rCHECKSTYLE=0 -ww -z < "man
> page"
> 
>   [Use 
> 
> grep -n -e ' $' -e '\\~$' -e ' \\f.$' -e ' \\"' <file>
> 
>   to find (most) trailing spaces.]
> 
>   ["test-groff" is a script in the repository for "groff"; is not shipped]
> (local copy and "troff" slightly changed by me).
> 
>   [The fate of "test-nroff" was decided in groff bug #55941.]
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.nE6nz8:114: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.nE6nz8:115: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> /usr/share/man/man1/po4a-translate.1p.gz
> 
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.NvbkKP:107: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.NvbkKP:108: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> /usr/share/man/man1/po4a-updatepo.1p.gz
> 
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.VimLpF:203: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.VimLpF:248: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.VimLpF:249: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.VimLpF:626: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.VimLpF:628: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> /usr/share/man/man1/po4a.1p.gz
> 
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.2V2ckZ:86: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> /usr/share/man/man3/Locale::Po4a::Text.3pm.gz
> 
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.FckNU1:181: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> troff:/tmp/gz.roff.FckNU1:579: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail]
> /usr/share/man/man7/po4a.7.gz
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
>      No output (no warnings).
> 
> -.-
> 
>   General remarks and further material, if a diff-file exist, are in the
> attachments.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: forky/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 7.0.12+deb14.1-amd64 (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 po4a depends on:
> ii  gettext                     1.0-1
> ii  libpod-parser-perl          1.67-1
> ii  libsgmls-perl               1.03ii-38
> ii  libsyntax-keyword-try-perl  0.31-1
> ii  libyaml-tiny-perl           1.76-1
> ii  opensp                      1.5.2-15.2
> ii  perl                        5.40.1-8
> 
> Versions of packages po4a recommends:
> ii  liblocale-gettext-perl     1.07-10
> ii  libterm-readkey-perl       2.38-2+b4
> ii  libtext-wrapi18n-perl      0.06-11
> ii  libunicode-linebreak-perl  0.0.20190101-3
> 
> po4a suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information

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