Bug 573459

Summary: Yelp does not display man references in some cases
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Massimiliano <massi.ergosum>
Component: yelpAssignee: Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Massimiliano 2010-03-14 22:28:30 UTC
Description of problem:
When displays some man pages, Yelp doesn't show the references to other pages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yelp-2.28.1-1.fc12.i686

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open yelp
2.Type "man:Xorg" in the search input
  
Actual results (what yelp shows):
...
SEE ALSO

(7),(1),(1),(1),(5),(1),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),openchrome (4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),(4),
Web site<http://www.x.org>.
...

Expected results (what the man command shows):
...
SEE ALSO
       X(7), Xserver(1), xdm(1), xinit(1), xorg.conf(5), xvidtune(1),  apm(4),
       ati(4),  chips(4),  cirrus(4),  cyrix(4), fbdev(4), glide(4), glint(4),
       i128(4), i740(4),  imstt(4),  intel(4),  mga(4),  neomagic(4),  nsc(4),
       nv(4),  openchrome  (4),  r128(4), rendition(4), s3virge(4), siliconmo-
       tion(4),   sis(4),   sunbw2(4),   suncg14(4),   suncg3(4),   suncg6(4),
       sunffb(4), sunleo(4), suntcx(4), tdfx(4), tga(4), trident(4), tseng(4),
       v4l(4), vesa(4), vmware(4),
       Web site <http://www.x.org>.
...

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 19:44:59 UTC
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Comment 2 Massimiliano 2010-12-30 16:49:06 UTC
This bug is still present in F14. But in F14 it is possible obtain a well formatted HTML page:

$ man -Thtml Xorg > Xorg.html && yelp Xorg.html

The result is much better than the one possible in F13 with:

$ man Xorg | groff -T html -mandoc > Xorg.html && yelp Xorg.html

and is better than the Yelp result.
Probably this is due to the adoption of the new man-db package.
In F14 also special characters are correctly displayed:

$ LANG=it_IT man -Thtml man > man.html && yelp man.html

but Yelp still doesn't do it. A similar bug is reported for Ubuntu:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/50318

See also:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477788
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+bug/154829

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