Hi Bruno, I'm not so sure of the details here, but maybe you are, since it relates to iconv stuff. Can you confirm/disconfirm the correctness of this part of the patch below:
> -values are listed by the \fBiconv \-\-list\fP command, and all combinations > +values are listed by the \fBiconv \-\-list\fP command, but not all > combinations ? (see Nicolas' longer explanation below) Thanks, Michael Nicolas François wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:19:21AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: >> Please save your patch and re-submit it when I've packaged the new upstream >> version of manpages, then it may go in as Debian addition to reflect the >> features of the iconv program shipped in Debian. > > Here is a patch with the two chunks not applied. > > > For man.7, according to the groff changelog: > > 2000-10-26 Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Convert macros `tmac.XXX' to `XXX.tmac'. Special cases: > > > For iconv_open.3, I had a look at the libc6 source code. > The find_derivation function which is responsible for finding a path from > the /from/ encoding to the /to/ encoding does not exclude that such > a path does not exist, which back up the statement from `iconv --list`: > > The following list contain all the coded character sets known. This does > not necessarily mean that all combinations of these names can be used for > the FROM and TO command line parameters. One coded character set can be > listed with several different names (aliases). > > I do not think there is anything Debian specific here, this statement was > introduced when the --list option was added: > http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/iconv/iconv_prog.c.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4&cvsroot=glibc&f=h > > Kind Regards, > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > diff -rauN ../orig/manpages-2.62/man3/iconv_open.3 > ./manpages-2.62/man3/iconv_open.3 > --- ../orig/manpages-2.62/man3/iconv_open.3 2007-06-22 00:55:04.000000000 > +0200 > +++ ./manpages-2.62/man3/iconv_open.3 2007-08-25 20:56:17.000000000 +0200 > @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ > The values permitted for \fIfromcode\fP and \fItocode\fP and the supported > combinations are system dependent. > For the GNU C library, the permitted > -values are listed by the \fBiconv \-\-list\fP command, and all combinations > +values are listed by the \fBiconv \-\-list\fP command, but not all > combinations > of the listed values are supported. > Furthermore the GNU C library and the > GNU libiconv library support the following two suffixes: > diff -rauN ../orig/manpages-2.62/man7/man.7 ./manpages-2.62/man7/man.7 > --- ../orig/manpages-2.62/man7/man.7 2007-08-25 16:49:56.000000000 +0200 > +++ ./manpages-2.62/man7/man.7 2007-08-25 21:01:09.000000000 +0200 > @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ > .I title > .SH DESCRIPTION > This manual page explains the > -.B "groff tmac.an" > +.B "groff an.tmac" > macro package (often called the > .B man > macro package). -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
