Bug 1054525 - .so troff macro does not redirect
Summary: .so troff macro does not redirect
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: crontabs
Version: 19
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-01-17 01:30 UTC by Don Swaner
Modified: 2015-01-12 09:27 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-01-12 09:27:42 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Don Swaner 2014-01-17 01:30:10 UTC
Description of problem:
The contents of	/usr/share/man/man4/run-parts.4.gz:
.so man/man4/crontabs.4

The ".so" troff macro apparently is supposed to switch a "man run-parts" to "man crontabs".   
It doesn't work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-db-2.6.3-7.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. do a "man run-parts"
2.
3.

Actual results:
man: can't open /usr/share/man/man/man4/crontabs.4: No such file or directory
No manual entry for run-parts

Expected results:
view man-page for crontabs

Additional info:
Note the double "/man/man" in the Actual results.

Comment 1 Colin Watson 2014-01-17 01:52:40 UTC
This is a bug in whatever package provides run-parts.4.gz.  It should read ".so man4/crontabs.4", not ".so man/man4/crontabs.4"; the .so path is normally meant to be relative to the root of the manual hierarchy, in this case /usr/share/man.

Comment 2 Don Swaner 2014-01-17 14:13:46 UTC
crontabs-1.11-5.20121102git.fc19.noarch

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2014-09-04 12:16:51 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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