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FS#51170 - [openssh] Man page formatting issue

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Glenn (grepfor) - Saturday, 01 October 2016, 18:49 GMT
Last edited by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Saturday, 01 October 2016, 21:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Version info: openssh 7.3p1-1

Summary: Some of the OpenSSH man pages format incorrectly.

Steps to reproduce:

$ man 1 ssh-agent

The text following the doc blurb for "-t life" option is improperly indented.

I communicated this issue upstream. Maintainer (Ingo Schwarze) says that the underlying problem is due to the mdoc2man.awk script which is [if I understood Ingo correctly] being used by Arch for creating the man page sources that get packages.

Attached are the main excerpts from our communications, explaining the issue and his observations about it. Please communicate with Ingo directly if more info is required. His address schwarze AT usta DOT de (Would appreciate Cc me if you feel so inclined)

Thanks


   excerpts.txt (4.6 KiB)
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Closed by  Gaetan Bisson (vesath)
Saturday, 01 October 2016, 21:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  openssh-7.3p1-2 in [testing]
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Saturday, 01 October 2016, 20:54 GMT
This is purely an upstream issue since the AWK script is theirs and in fact our PKGBUILD does not even call it explicitely: we simply run `make install`.

Since this issue is non critical we'll just wait for the next upstream release that incorporates a fix.
Comment by Gaetan Bisson (vesath) - Saturday, 01 October 2016, 21:12 GMT
I just read Ingo's last message and realized we could do without --with-mantype=man and still have manpages. So I'll remove it from our PKGBUILD. Cheers!

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