On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 03:27:29AM +0200, Jan Braun wrote: > P.P.S.: The manpage is missing a leading "-" for all the options at the > start of a line.
I found what is causing this. Lintian also warns about the manpage:
W: subdownloader: manpage-has-errors-from-man
usr/share/man/man1/subdownloader.1.gz 53: a special character is not allowed in
a name
And checking more thoroughly manually:
troff: <standard input>:53: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:56: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:59: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:62: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:69: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:72: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:79: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:82: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:85: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:88: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:91: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:98: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:101: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:104: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:107: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:110: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:113: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:116: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:119: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:122: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:129: a special character is not allowed in a name
troff: <standard input>:132: a special character is not allowed in a name
Then looking at those lines, they are like this:
.B\-\-version
i.e. there is a missing space between the groff "tag" (the ".B") and the
"argument" (the "\-\-version").
That clearly breaks while displaying, in this case losing the first
minus sign.
I'm not sure how to handle this. After all the manpage is generated by
sphinx, and I don't really know it. I'll look into it (I don't really
consider it urgent).
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Mattia Rizzolo
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