tags 418811 fixed-upstream pending thanks Quoting Paul Higgins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: samba-common > Version: 3.0.24-6 > Severity: minor > > > Bug 266230 (supposedly fixed) reports problems with the man page for smb.conf. > > When I do man smb.conf, the listing shows artifacts, such as: > "Any line ending in a “#8221; is continued on the next line in > the customary UNIX fashion." > Also, if I try the folowing: > LANG=en_US MANWIDTH=132 man -7 smb.conf > smb.conf-man7w.lst
Upstream made numerous changes to their manpages and this issue has disappeared in the upcoming 3.0.25: As you mention, with manpages from 3.0.24-6: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian/samba/samba-3.0.25rc1/docs/manpages> zcat /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz | groff -man -Tascii >~/tmp/foo <standard input>:444: warning: numeric expression expected (got `r') <standard input>:2976: warning: numeric expression expected (got `a') <standard input>:3010: warning: numeric expression expected (got `m') <standard input>:3781: warning: numeric expression expected (got `m') <standard input>:3781: normal or special character expected (got a space) <standard input>:4147: cannot use a space as a starting delimiter <standard input>:4153: a space character is not allowed in an escape name <standard input>:4156: a space character is not allowed in an escape name <standard input>:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name <standard input>:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name <standard input>:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name <standard input>:4886: warning: numeric expression expected (got `S') <standard input>:4887: missing delimiter (got a space) <standard input>:4887: warning: numeric expression expected (got `A') <standard input>:5781: warning: numeric expression expected (got `a') For manpages of 3.0.25rc1: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian/samba/samba-3.0.25rc1/docs/manpages> groff -man -Tascii smb.conf.5 >~/tmp/foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/debian/samba/samba-3.0.25rc1/docs/manpages>
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