From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79C-SGI [en] (X11; U; IRIX 6.5 IP32) Description of problem: man-pages-1.35-5 man-1.5i2-0.7x.5 redhat 7.1 man pages garbled example: if you have the original man page ls.1.gz and also have a copy ls.1.gz.orig in /usr/share/man/man1and try to run man ls the manpage is garbled. I notice this when I modified the man page and also kept the original. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2.man pages garbled example: if you have the original man page ls.1.gz and also have a copy ls.1.gz.orig in /usr/share/man/man1and try to run man ls the manpage is garbled. I notice this when I modified the man page and also kept the original. 3. Actual Results: man pages garbled example: if you have the original man page ls.1.gz and also have a copy ls.1.gz.orig in /usr/share/man/man1and try to run man ls the manpage is garbled. I notice this when I modified the man page and also kept the original. Additional info:
looks like yet another groff formatting bug
This must be a problem within man. greetings, Florian La Roche
i don't think man expects to have non-man-use files in the /usr/share/man area (often times the /usr/share area is mounted read-only, so this is a reasonable assumption). You can workaround this problem by naming the backup file in such a way that the left$ of each don't match.