Arch Linux

Please read this before reporting a bug:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bug_reporting_guidelines

Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List.

REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!
Tasklist

FS#59173 - [cyrus-sasl] man page is hard wrapped

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Drew DeVault (SirCmpwn) - Thursday, 28 June 2018, 13:36 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 03 February 2019, 15:42 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

saslauthd(8) is formatted incorrectly.

Additional info:
* cyrus-sasl 2.1.26-11
* viewing this man page with rxvt-unicode

Steps to reproduce:

man 8 saslauthd
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 03 February 2019, 15:42 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Worked around in 2.1.27-1 by copying the file instead
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 28 June 2018, 14:09 GMT
  • Field changed: Summary (cyrus-sasl man page is hard wrapped → [cyrus-sasl] man page is hard wrapped)
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Assigned)
  • Field changed: Category (Packages: Extra → Upstream Bugs)
  • Task assigned to Jan de Groot (JGC)
Inspiring.

Here's the original manpage source, formatted as a manpage.
https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/blob/master/saslauthd/saslauthd.mdoc

Here's where they use nroff to convert it into plaintext in order to install it. This is so many types of backwards: https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/blob/e41cfb986c1b1935770de554872247453fdbb079/saslauthd/Makefile.am#L43

Obviously plaintext files viewed in man(1) do not show up very well.
Comment by Drew DeVault (SirCmpwn) - Thursday, 28 June 2018, 14:17 GMT

Loading...