Bug#459884: nmap: Error in man page

2008-01-12 Thread Fyodor
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:33:45PM -0800, Fyodor wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:41:14AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: This is because in /usr/share/man/man1/nmap.1.gz twice a line starts with \.nse which is confused for the .ns nroff no-space mode command. A fix suggested at

Bug#459884: nmap: Error in man page

2008-01-11 Thread Richard van den Berg
Fyodor wrote: I'm afraid it isn't that easy. nmap.1 is generated from DocBook source (docs/nmap.xml in the Nmap tarball) using xsltproc. The best solution would be to fix whatever part of the toolchain is producing the invalid nroff. If you have suggestions or ideas, I'd be happy to hear

Bug#459884: nmap: Error in man page

2008-01-10 Thread Fyodor
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:41:14AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: This is because in /usr/share/man/man1/nmap.1.gz twice a line starts with \.nse which is confused for the .ns nroff no-space mode command. A fix suggested at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q4/0305.html is to put the

Bug#459884: nmap: Error in man page

2008-01-09 Thread Richard van den Berg
Package: nmap Version: 4.50-4 Severity: normal When running man nmap, I get: /tmp/zmanLs6Vo2:999: a special character is not allowed in a name /tmp/zmanLs6Vo2:999: warning: `nse' not defined (probable missing space after `ns') /tmp/zmanLs6Vo2:1025: warning: `nse)' not defined (probable missing