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Bug 271230

Summary: sys-apps/groff 1.20.1-r1 produces bad character definition and few warning when trying to read man page of net-ftp/ftp-0.17-r7 (fixed)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Dani Soufi <danisoufi>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Dani Soufi 2009-05-25 18:51:23 UTC
Trying to read manual pages of net-ftp/ftp-0.17-r7 package produce the following error and few warnings as such:

/usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#109)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#111)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#113)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#116)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#118)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#120)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#122)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#124)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#130)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#134)
mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Ic (#138)

this is fixed as the following diff shows:

3375c3375
< .char \- \N'45'
---
> .rchar \- \N'45'


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Sunit Das 2009-07-22 20:10:43 UTC
Someone in bug #263524 claims this is a dupe of it.  Not sure, personally, but thought a mention in a comment would be a good idea (I'm unsure of the dependency relationship between these two, and certainly can't claim one blocks another), and I can't mark dupes, so here we are.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2010-07-24 05:17:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 263524 ***