Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142673
Improved man2html page translation.
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:56 EST
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.
Created attachment 108401 [details] Simple improvements for man2html.
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