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FS#15100 - [iputils] Option '-c' missing in ping's man page

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Noel Maersk (veox) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 09:43 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 19:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

With iputils-20071127-2, the manpage of ping does not list '-c' in the options list.
The description of the option is there, it's just the '-c' bit that is missing.
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 19:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Comment by Noel Maersk (veox) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 09:48 GMT
In the ABS PKGBUILD, manpages are generated (from SGML) not using the provided Makefile (which requires docbook2html).
Comment by Noel Maersk (veox) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 09:56 GMT
Also, building from ABS fails to create the manpages. Build log provided.
   iputilsbug.buildfromabs (20.6 KiB)
Comment by Noel Maersk (veox) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 09:57 GMT
P.S. Linux xxx 2.6.29-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu May 28 xxx 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5670 @ 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Sorry for not putting [iputils] in the title.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 13:40 GMT
Actually this looks like upstream issue.
Comment by Noel Maersk (veox) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 16:16 GMT
It might be, but then again, the string is present in the documentation source (.sgml). This particular option is formatted somewhat different than its neighbouring ones, which makes me think that the build part in PKGBUILD might be choking.

Then again, the ABS package has build errors, which is also an issue.
Comment by Noel Maersk (veox) - Sunday, 14 June 2009, 16:18 GMT
The '-w' option has the same issue in the manpage, as is formatted the same way in the source.
Comment by Ryan (ryeinmaiden) - Monday, 04 January 2010, 00:45 GMT
This extends beyond ping in iputils. I have confirmed this issue with the following:

arping
- missing -c, -I, -s, and -w options from man output, description is contained
clockdiff
- missing all entries in REFERENCES, only reference entry identifiers are contained
ping
- missing -c, -w options from man output, description is contained
Comment by Ryan (ryeinmaiden) - Monday, 04 January 2010, 00:55 GMT
Source of issue is upstream misuse of <anchor> tags in their sgml files. In the source, the tags are left unclosed, resulting in autoclosure by osx, with the assumption that the tag expands to the next enclosing tag's end. This results in the directly following text's enclosure and ultimately its failure to render in the man page. It's my understanding that <anchor> tags and their enclosed text do not render after conversion to troff.


I was able to make a minor change to our PKGBUILD to correct this issue for all 3 affected sources.

I'm uncertain if the alteration to the stylesheet location is necessary on the build server, but it was required for me due to my installed docbook-xsl version.

Obviously, we should contact upstream and see if this can be changed on their end -- presuming that I'm not being an idiot, and there isn't a way we're *supposed* to be handling this on our end

   pkgbuild.diff (0.6 KiB)
Comment by Ryan (ryeinmaiden) - Thursday, 07 January 2010, 05:51 GMT
Sent information upstream to Yoshifuji who is identified as the iputils maintainer, according to linux foundation. Awaiting response. Will update once I receive one.
Comment by Ryan (ryeinmaiden) - Saturday, 13 February 2010, 20:22 GMT
Never received an update from Yoshifuji. I will seek alternative contacts, though I'm not particularly hopeful that something useful will occur.
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 03:58 GMT
status?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 16 June 2010, 15:49 GMT
this is upstream and should probably just be closed

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