[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#598643: Bug#598643: gdal-bin: Man page fails to format in Emacs

Francesco P. Lovergine frankie at debian.org
Thu Sep 30 18:30:21 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:54:03PM +0100, Toby Speight wrote:
> Package: gdal-bin
> Version: 1.6.3-4+b1
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/ogrinfo.1.gz
> 
> M-x man ogrinfo:
> 
> /--------
> | ogrinfo(1)                                                   ogrinfo(1)
> | 
> | NAME
> |        ogrinfo - .TH "ogrinfo" 1 "Sun Sep 5 2010" "GDAL"
> | 
> \--------
> 
> And that's it.  Using 'man' in a terminal, I get the above garbled
> output followed by a correct-looking manpage, but Emacs gives up at
> this point.  I think the fix is to remove lines 2-5 of ogrinfo.1, which
> are a duplicate of 6-9.  Just looks like an accidental paste.
> 
> Of course, if ogrinfo.1 is generated from some other format (it doesn't
> say it is), perhaps the tool or the input is at fault?
> 

Indeed it is not the only man page garbled.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine





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