Bug#418811: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#418811: samba-common: man page for smb.conf still has unicode(?) problems

[Christian Perrier]

tags 418811 fixed-upstream pending
thanks

Quoting Paul Higgins (Paul.Higgins at handheld.com):
> Package: samba-common
> Version: 3.0.24-6
> Severity: minor
> 
> 
> Bug 266230 (supposedly fixed) reports problems with the man page for smb.conf.
> 
> When I do man smb.conf, the listing shows artifacts, such as:
> 	"Any line ending in a “#8221; is continued on the next line in the customary UNIX fashion."
> Also, if I try the folowing:
> 	LANG=en_US MANWIDTH=132 man -7 smb.conf > smb.conf-man7w.lst


Upstream made numerous changes to their manpages and this issue has
disappeared in the upcoming 3.0.25:

As you mention, with manpages from 3.0.24-6:

bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/samba/samba-3.0.25rc1/docs/manpages> zcat /usr/share/man/man5/smb.conf.5.gz |  groff -man -Tascii  >~/tmp/foo
<standard input>:444: warning: numeric expression expected (got `r')
<standard input>:2976: warning: numeric expression expected (got `a')
<standard input>:3010: warning: numeric expression expected (got `m')
<standard input>:3781: warning: numeric expression expected (got `m')
<standard input>:3781: normal or special character expected (got a space)
<standard input>:4147: cannot use a space as a starting delimiter
<standard input>:4153: a space character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:4156: a space character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:4159: a space character is not allowed in an escape name
<standard input>:4886: warning: numeric expression expected (got `S')
<standard input>:4887: missing delimiter (got a space)
<standard input>:4887: warning: numeric expression expected (got `A')
<standard input>:5781: warning: numeric expression expected (got `a')


For manpages of 3.0.25rc1:

bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/samba/samba-3.0.25rc1/docs/manpages> groff -man -Tascii smb.conf.5 >~/tmp/foo
bubulle at mykerinos:~/src/debian/samba/samba-3.0.25rc1/docs/manpages> 


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