Bug 142673

Summary: Improved man2html page translation.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: DaveG <daveg>
Component: manAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Simple improvements for man2html. none

Description DaveG 2004-12-12 12:05:02 UTC 
Description of problem:

The man2html component in the man package has a few wrinkles that can 
easily be fixed:
a. table handling
b. hyperlinks to header files
c. hyperlink recognition for Perl modules

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Present in all versions of man since RHL72.

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up man2html CGI scripts as per man2html documentation.
2. Use a web browser to access standard manual pages for fetchmail
(1), syslog(2) and spamassassin(1). These are the pages that prompted 
this report.
3. Look at the results.
  
Actual results:

fetchmail: "Keyword/Option Summary" - entries illegible.
syslog: "#include <sys/klog.h>" - 
href="file:///usr/include/sys/klog.h"
spamassassin: "SEE ALSO", "Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf(3)" 
href="http://www.localnet/cgi-bin/man/man2html?3+Conf"

Expected results:

fetchmail: table layout legible.
syslog: href for include files should be http://<server>/include/...
spamassassin: should include ":" as valid man page character.

Additional info:

Changes can be accomplished with just 10 lines of code - see attached 
patch.
Comment 1 DaveG 2004-12-12 12:08:50 UTC 
Created attachment 108401 [details]
Simple improvements for man2html.
Comment 2 Ivana Varekova 2005-03-22 08:05:14 UTC 
Thank you for notice and your patch. I used your patch to fix these problems (I
used only first and third changes. I think the original format of address in the
second item is correct.)
The fixed version is 1.5p-3.
Ivana Varekova