Your message dated Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:34:49 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#1120522: man: LT is not equal to LL
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Package: man-db
Version: 2.13.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
The header lines were longer than other lines.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Added the line
.tm LT = \n(LTu, LL = \n(LLu
to a man file,
Run an example,
/usr/bin/man -l groff_font.5 > /dev/null
with
environment variables
MANOPT='-E latin1'
MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man
MANROFFOPT='-rF=0 -dAD=l -rHY=0 -rLL=80n -dMF=R -ww -b'
MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes
* What was the outcome of this action?
LT is 3048u, LL is 1920u
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Both register are the same length.
-.-
When LL is set and LT not in "MANROFFOPT", LT should be equal to LL.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.16.12+deb14+1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
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)
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdextrautils 2.41.2-4
ii bsdmainutils 12.1.8
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii groff-base 1.23.0-9
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libgdbm6t64 1.26-1
ii libpipeline1 1.5.8-1
ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
pn apparmor <none>
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 140.4.0esr-1
ii groff 1.23.0-9
ii less 668-1
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.2-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3+git20230121-2.1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/manpath.config changed [not included]
-- debconf information:
man-db/install-setuid: false
man-db/auto-update: true
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--- Begin Message ---
Control: tag -1 wontfix
On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 05:03:11PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
Added the line
.tm LT = \n(LTu, LL = \n(LLu
to a man file,
Run an example,
/usr/bin/man -l groff_font.5 > /dev/null
with
environment variables
MANOPT='-E latin1'
MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man
MANROFFOPT='-rF=0 -dAD=l -rHY=0 -rLL=80n -dMF=R -ww -b'
MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes
* What was the outcome of this action?
LT is 3048u, LL is 1920u
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Both register are the same length.
-.-
When LL is set and LT not in "MANROFFOPT", LT should be equal to LL.
I think any such thing would require too much magic in man(1), so I
don't intend to do it. You can always add -rLT to MANROFFOPT too if
this is important to you.
--
Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
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