Bug 665535 - /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition
Summary: /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: groff
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jan Vcelak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-12-24 13:59 UTC by Ricky Zhou
Modified: 2013-03-04 01:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: groff-1.20.1-3.fc14
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-02-02 19:27:55 UTC
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Description Ricky Zhou 2010-12-24 13:59:24 UTC
On certain manpages (for example, man sshd_config), the error

/usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition

is displayed at the top of the manpage.  This also seems to cause rpmlint to give false warnings about the manpages:

$ rpmlint openssh
...
openssh.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man8/ssh-keysign.8.gz 3375: bad character definition
openssh.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man8/ssh-keysign.8.gz 3379: warning: macro `\}' not defined
openssh.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/ssh-keygen.1.gz 3375: bad character definition
openssh.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/ssh-keygen.1.gz 3379: warning: macro `\}' not defined
...

The same bug on the Gentoo bugzilla (https://bugs.gentoo.org/263524) points to the following stream fix: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff-commit/2009-04/msg00000.html.

Would it be possible to backport this fix in the Fedora package?

Comment 1 Jan Vcelak 2011-01-21 17:30:53 UTC
Fixed in groff-1.20.1-3.fc14

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-01-21 17:32:09 UTC
groff-1.20.1-3.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/groff-1.20.1-3.fc14

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-01-21 22:58:16 UTC
groff-1.20.1-3.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 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: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/groff-1.20.1-3.fc14

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2011-02-02 19:27:46 UTC
groff-1.20.1-3.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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