Package: tcl8.6-doc Version: 8.6.13+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Displaying man page "chan.3tcl" with the next version (candidate) of groff (1.23.0). * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? (test-nroff is in the git repository) test-nroff -man -b -ww /tmp/chan.3tcl * What was the outcome of this action? See later * What outcome did you expect instead? To see '|' at the right margin for changed text. #### The macro 'VS' contains the line .ie n 'mc \s12\(br\s0 1) There is no type size change in nroff mode, so "\s12" does not change the type size, that is, it stays unchanged. 2) The next version of "groff" (pending) interprets "\s12" as "\s1" with an added text "2", which means, the digit "2" is printed instead of "\(br" (same as '|'). Example from "chan.3tcl": deletes all existing file-events registered on the channel. If 2 and warnings (if the man option "--warnings=w" and environmental variable "MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes" are used): troff: backtrace: '/tmp/chan.3tcl':150: macro 'VS' troff: backtrace: file '/tmp/chan.3tcl':304 troff:/tmp/chan.3tcl:304: warning: expected numeric expression, got a special character troff: backtrace: '/tmp/chan.3tcl':150: macro 'VS' troff: backtrace: file '/tmp/chan.3tcl':352 troff:/tmp/chan.3tcl:352: warning: expected numeric expression, got a special character ### The fix is to drop the type size change and use .ie n 'mc \(br -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.7-1 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) tcl8.6-doc depends on no packages. tcl8.6-doc recommends no packages. Versions of packages tcl8.6-doc suggests: ii tcl8.6 8.6.13+dfsg-2 -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Pkg-tcltk-devel mailing list Pkg-tcltk-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-tcltk-devel