Package: groff-base
Version: 1.22.4-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
There is a bug in groff 1.22.4 that causes groff to print a diagnostic
to stderr when an argument to .Lk starts with a dot:
troff: man/SSL_CTX_set_max_cert_list.3:126: name expected (got '\c'):
treated as missing
This issue is reproducible by rendering man/SSL_CTX_set_max_cert_list.3
in LibreSSL-portable with groff -mdoc;
you may have to pipe to something other than less(1) to see the
diagnostic.
This has been fixed in upstream groff 1.22.4 (but reportbug(1) wouldn't
let me tag this fixed-upstream for some reason) in git commit
76e4db6e839904d2e2a28b29b483678214598f3b on 2019-01-12.
I've tested the attached patch and it seemed to resolve the issue for
me.
Thank you for your time.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages groff-base depends on:
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
ii libuchardet0 0.0.6-3
groff-base recommends no packages.
Versions of packages groff-base suggests:
ii groff 1.22.4-3
-- no debconf information
diff --git a/tmac/doc.tmac-u b/tmac/doc.tmac-u
index f172fd89..70236c04 100644
--- a/tmac/doc.tmac-u
+++ b/tmac/doc.tmac-u
@@ -6485,10 +6485,11 @@
. if (\n[doc-arg-ptr] <= \n[doc-lasttext-Lk]) \{\
. nop \*[doc-Em-font]\c
. while (\n[doc-arg-ptr] < \n[doc-lasttext-Lk]) \{\
-. nop \*[doc-arg\n[doc-arg-ptr]]
+. nop \&\*[doc-arg\n[doc-arg-ptr]]
. nr doc-arg-ptr +1
. \}
-. nop \*[doc-arg\n[doc-arg-ptr]]\f[\n[doc-curr-font]]\s[\n[doc-curr-size]u]:
+. nop \&\*[doc-arg\n[doc-arg-ptr]]\c
+. nop \f[\n[doc-curr-font]]\s[\n[doc-curr-size]u]:
. nr doc-arg-ptr +1
. \}
.
@@ -6498,7 +6499,7 @@
.
. \" Print the delimiters, if any.
. while (\n[doc-arg-ptr] <= \n[doc-arg-limit]) \{\
-. nop \*[doc-arg\n[doc-arg-ptr]]\c
+. nop \&\*[doc-arg\n[doc-arg-ptr]]\c
. nr doc-arg-ptr +1
. \}
. nop \&
