Bug 522856

Summary:	=gnome-extra/yelp-3*: legacy man patch not quite complete
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	NeedPatch
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rafał Mużyło 2014-09-15 10:57:52 UTC

There's a place that yelp-3.0.3-man-compatibility.patch missed, though fixing that place might be a bit tedious.
In libyelp/yelp-uri.c in find_man_path 'man -w' is used.
It's yet another option that has different meaning in legacy man and man-db.

For legacy man, '-w' not only prints cat pages, which yelp doesn't expect, but the lines for those pages are formatted in a way yelp doesn't understand.
'man -W' might be a solution for for legacy man, but not only this option has a has a different meaning for man-db (it prints *only* cat pages there), but we'd need to filter out cat page from the output.

(on unrelated note: it just might be me, but I can't get yelp to display *info* pages - it gets stuck on loading (I strongly suspect yelp_bz2_decompressor_convert is subtly broken, but can't figure out the problem yet))

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2021-04-16 14:38:31 UTC

Should be RESOLVED/NEEDPATCH :)