Package: roffit
Version: 0.6+cvs20090507-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream patch
Roffit is very strict in detecting man page headers (TH lines).
It should recognize fields correctly if unneccesary double quotes are
omitted. Also, arbitrary white space between fields should not matter.
The attached patch probably fixes these problems.
One issue is still unsolved: Escaped spaces. For nroff the following
lines are equivalent:
.TH curl 1 "22 Oct 2003" "Curl 7.10.8" "Curl Manual"
.TH curl 1 22\ Oct\ 2003 Curl\ 7.10.8 Curl\ Manual
This corner-case will probably seldom show up, however. Fixing it
might require more than the single regexp that is used currently.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages roffit depends on:
ii perl 5.10.1-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
roffit recommends no packages.
roffit suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- roffit.orig 2010-06-03 16:30:34.000000000 +0200
+++ roffit 2010-06-03 16:56:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -212,13 +212,19 @@
# man page header:
# curl 1 "22 Oct 2003" "Curl 7.10.8" "Curl Manual"
# NAME SECTION DATE VERSION MANUAL
- if($rest =~ /([^ ]*) (\d+) \"([^\"]*)\"
\"([^\"]*)\"(\"([^\"]*)\")?/) {
+ if($rest =~ /
+ ([^ ]+)[ \t]+
+ (\d+)[ \t]+
+ (\"[^\"]+\"|[^ \t]+)[ \t]+
+ (\"[^\"]+\"|[^ \t]+)[ \t]+
+ (\"[^\"]+\"|[^ \t]+)?
+ /x) {
# strict matching only so far
$manpage{'name'} = $1;
$manpage{'section'} = $2;
$manpage{'date'} = $3;
$manpage{'version'} = $4;
- $manpage{'manual'} = $6;
+ $manpage{'manual'} = $5;
}
}
elsif($keyword =~ /^S[HS]$/) {
