Hi Alejandro! On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 09:14:26PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Package: python3-docutils > Version: 0.17.1+dfsg-2 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/rst2man > Tags: upstream > X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com, gr...@gnu.org, Quentin Monnet > <quen...@isovalent.com> > > Hi, > > When rst2man has no information to generate the 5th field to the > .TH macro (the one that sets the title line, i.e., the header and > footer of the manual page), it generates it as an empty argument, > that is "". groff(1) and mandoc(1) have good defaults for the 5th > field of .TH when it is not specified, so that most manual pages > should need to specify it, but to use that default, the field has > to be missing, and an empty argument is an existing argument.
Regarding this bug, upstream wants to know [1] whether omitting the 5th argument will work with all troff/manpage writers. I believe it is the case, but can you confirm? [1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/458/#b7b6 -- Dmitry Shachnev
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