tags 673436 fixed-upstream
thanks
Thanks Bjarni. I've applied your patch.
Cheers,
Michael
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason
bjarn...@rhi.hi.is wrote:
Package: manpages
Version: 3.27-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
[Also sent to upstream, linux-man and mtk.manpages]
From man ... (nroff ...):
grotty:standard input (standard input):1763: character above first line
discarded
grotty:standard input (standard input):2688: character above first line
discarded
grotty:standard input (standard input):3286: character above first line
discarded
The culprit is Dl 0 - (vertical line) where is
one line (40 nroff units) to long. Or there is a bug in
grotty. nroff or tbl makes an empty line where a page
break is.
Patch:
--- suffixes.7 2012-04-26 22:58:40.0 +
+++ suffixes.7.new 2012-05-18 01:22:54.0 +
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@
.\ FIXME, mtk, May 2007: rendering this page yields the error:
.\ grotty:suffixes.7:1725: character above first line discarded
.\
+.\ nroff (man) (or tbl) needs a long page to avoid warnings
+.\ from grotty (at imagined page breaks). Bug in grotty?
+.if n .pl 1000v
.TH SUFFIXES 7 2000-11-16 Linux Linux Programmer's Manual
.SH NAME
suffixes \- list of file suffixes
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-45
Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
manpages depends on no packages.
manpages recommends no packages.
Versions of packages manpages suggests:
ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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Bjarni I. Gislason
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of The Linux Programming Interface; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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