Bug 1299649
| Summary: | mpfr.info in the package with wrong encoding | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michal Jaegermann <michal.jnn> | ||||
| Component: | mpfr | Assignee: | Pavel Cahyna <pcahyna> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 27 | CC: | fkluknav, jamesturner246, loganjerry, rdieter | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | mpfr-3.1.6-1.fc27 mpfr-3.1.6-1.fc26 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2018-03-06 17:25:15 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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It appears that a web interface "filtered-out" some stuff which it does not recognize; so in reality this is quite a bit worse than it looks here. This message is a reminder that Fedora 23 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 23. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '23'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 23 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Created attachment 1231318 [details]
screenshot of mpfr.info display from Fedora 25
This is as broken in Fedora 25 as it was in 23. As bugzilla "cleans up" a pasted output, and one has to run 'info mpfr' to see results for yourself, I am including a screenshot of a small fragment showing how this is presented. This is as bad, or worse, through the whole document and it does not take much to fix it.
Fedora 23 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-12-20. Fedora 23 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. (In reply to Fedora End Of Life from comment #4) > If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of > Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Yes, I do and I already did. See comment #3. mpfr-3.1.5-1.fc25 suffers from the same affliction. Even more fun: everything past section 4 ("MPFR Basics") is missing. This includes section 5, "MPFR Interface", exactly the section I need....
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. This message is a reminder that Fedora 25 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 25. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '25'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 25 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. This is equally broken in mpfr-3.1.5-5.fc27 including missing parts after section 4 as noted in comment #6. What is more interesting that somebody had to work hard to mess things up in such manner as a default build does not suffer from this strange affliction. Would some kind soul, please, wake up and restore a modicum of sanity? The problem is due to a couple of iconv calls in the specfile, which are intended to convert the mpfr.info files to unicode. The MPFR info file is now unicode, however, and has been for some time. Thus doing ASCII to unicode conversion again, during the prep phase of the specfile, messes up a lot of the info file encoding. I have uploaded a fix to this issue, as well as an update to MPFR version 3.1.6, over at this ticket: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1528781. A working Koji build at: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=23871092. I would like to assist in the maintenance of this package, however I am not in the package maintainer's group yet. I would greatly appreciate somebody reviewing the request and/or providing a sponsorship so that I can help keep it functional and updated. Cheers. mpfr-3.1.6-1.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b4b924c3ca mpfr-3.1.6-1.fc27 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 27. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-bc39bbae38 mpfr-3.1.6-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-bc39bbae38 mpfr-3.1.6-1.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-b4b924c3ca mpfr-3.1.6-1.fc27 has been pushed to the Fedora 27 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. mpfr-3.1.6-1.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
Description of problem: A content of mpfr.info looks like this: ..... The main characteristics of MPFR, which make it differ from most arbitrary precision floating-point software tools, are: ⢠the MPFR code is portable, i.e., the result of any operation does not depend on the machine word size âmp_bits_per_limbâ (64 on most current processors); ..... (and so on, and so on). Make wonders for readability. Whereas both mpfr.info already included in the source package and a similar file produced by a 'makeinfo' run from mpfr.texi does not suffer from such affliction and the corresponding text fragment shows as: .... The main characteristics of MPFR, which make it differ from most arbitrary precision floating-point software tools, are: • the MPFR code is portable, i.e., the result of any operation does not depend on the machine word size ‘mp_bits_per_limb’ (64 on most current processors); .... as expected (and continues in the same manner). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mpfr-3.1.3-2.fc23 Expected results: An info file using utf-8 encoding (especially that in an 'mpft.texi' header one can find '@documentencoding UTF-8' Additional info: No trouble in producing a correct info file on a F23 installation. In any case a ready mpfr.info file from sources can be used instead.