Description of problem: All man 3 manpages's SYNOPSIS-sections from fontconfig-devel seem to be broken or mal-formated. Example: man FCPatternDel gives ... SYNOPSIS #include <fontconfig.h> FcBool FcPatternDel(FcPattern *p); (const char *object); .fi ... The are 2 issues with this: a) Too many and bogus braces. Correct would be: FcBool FcPatternDel(FcPattern *p, const char *object); b) a stray ".fi" at the end of the section. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All versions on all current Fedoras: fontconfig-devel-2.8.0-1.fc13.x86_64 fontconfig-devel-2.8.0-2.fc14.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. invoke man on any arbitrary Fc*.3 manpage from fontconfig-devel) Actual results: Cf. above. => faulty and mal formated reference manuals. Expected results: Correctly displayed accurate reference manuals.
Sorry, wrong component ;)
Humm, I've seen this, but don't know how to fix it. It's a problem with the sgml man book generation workflow used in fontconfig, which is beyond me.
Well, AFAIS, you are installing the pre-built *.3's from the upstream tarball and don't rebuild the docs. => The bug already is inside of the tarball. BTW: I don't know what SUSE does differently than you, but their fontsconfig packages don't have this issue.
(In reply to comment #3) > Well, AFAIS, you are installing the pre-built *.3's from the upstream tarball > and don't rebuild the docs. > > => The bug already is inside of the tarball. Right. But I build the tarball on a Fedora system... > BTW: I don't know what SUSE does differently than you, but their fontsconfig > packages don't have this issue. No idea. Ubuntu seems to be doing better than Fedora also. I'll roll the next tarball on Ubuntu.
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Problem still evident in manpages from fontconfig-devel-2.8.0-2.fc14.i686 so changing version to 14.
the bug should be in docbook2man. reassigning to docbook-utils.
Any updates? as it's described in comment#4, I don't see this issue when generating on Ubuntu.
Debian/Ubuntu uses older version of docbook2man.pl conversion script. If it works correctly on Ubuntu, there must be kind of regression between these two versions. I will check that, as I will have to update docbook-utils anyway due to other reported issue.
Should be fixed by http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2012-May/787200.html - docbook-utils-0.6.14-31.fc18 -> closing RAWHIDE.
docbook-utils-0.6.14-30.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/docbook-utils-0.6.14-30.fc16
docbook-utils-0.6.14-31.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/docbook-utils-0.6.14-31.fc17
docbook-utils-0.6.14-30.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
docbook-utils-0.6.14-31.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.