Bug 428443

Summary: nroff: Specifying of any -Txxx option removes all other options
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dmitry Butskoy <dmitry>
Component: groffAssignee: Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 7Keywords: EasyFix, Patch
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Fixed In Version: 1.18.1.4-11.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Dmitry Butskoy 2008-01-11 16:00:20 UTC 
The latest changes to the nroff(1) script cause it to drop all accumulated
"$opts" when user specifies -Txxx option.

The patch (which fix it) illustrates the issue properly...

I've found this bug, when tried to read a manual page under MC (Midnight
Commander). Due to historical reasons, MC reads any manual through the filter:
"nroff -c -Tlatin1 -mandoc filename". Since it uses "-Tlatin1", in the current
version of nroff all "$opts" will be dropped, IOW no more "-mtty-char -P-c" etc.
As a result, some raw postscript text is shown instead of the properly formatted
manual page.
Comment 1 Dmitry Butskoy 2008-01-11 16:00:20 UTC 
Created attachment 291400 [details]
Patch to fix the issue
Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-01-25 08:15:39 UTC 
I fixed it in rawhide. Update will be following soon.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-01-27 07:09:57 UTC 
groff-1.18.1.4-8.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update groff'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/F7/FEDORA-2008-1021
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-01-27 07:19:17 UTC 
groff-1.18.1.4-11.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-01-29 05:15:25 UTC 
groff-1.18.1.4-8.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.