On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 05:57:31PM -0600, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
[CCing groff@gnu to keep developers informed]
[CCing Colin Watson as erstwhile groff package maintainer for Ubuntu]
Only in the sense that Ubuntu has never had any changes to its groff
source package relative to Debian, except for one security update in
2004. These days I have rather little direct interest in Ubuntu ...
At 2026-01-19T16:40:05-0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
For groff-1.23.0.5077-7dcc8 on CentOS 7.9 and Ubuntu 20.04, I got
this failure:
FAIL: tmac/tests/an_UR-works.sh
Here is the log file:
checking HTML output of web URI
I/O Error: Couldn't open file '-'
checking formatting of web URI with link text (pdf device; hyperlinks disabled)
...FAILED
checking formatting of web URI with no link text (pdf device; hyperlinks
disabled)
...FAILED
I/O Error: Couldn't open file '-'
checking formatting of web URI with link text (pdf device; hyperlinks enabled)
...FAILED
checking formatting of web URI with no link text (pdf device; hyperlinks
enabled)
...FAILED
FAIL tmac/tests/an_UR-works.sh (exit status: 1)
I've never seen this failure mode before.
Could some kind of security machinery be interfering with grohtml(1)'s
substantially complex means of getting things done?
Could be, I guess. Check for AppArmor denials in the system log?
But it could also be a different pdftotext implementation that doesn't
understand reading standard input using "-", or something like that.
Somebody would likely have to trace it in more detail.
--
Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
