Okay -- already dealt with in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673436 Thanks, Michael On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.40 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > > From "man ..." ("nroff ..."): > > grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):1763: character above first line discarded > grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):2688: character above first line discarded > grotty:<standard input> (<standard input>):3286: character above first line discarded > > "man" ("nroff") needs a long page to avoid (imaginary) page > breaks for the long tables. > > The culprit is "Dl 0 -xxxx" (vertical line) where "xxxx" is > one line (40 nroff units) too long. Or there is a bug in > "grotty". "nroff" or "tbl" makes an empty line where a page > break is. > > Patch: > > --- suffixes.7 2012-04-26 22:58:40.000000000 +0000 > +++ suffixes.7.new 2012-05-18 01:22:54.000000000 +0000 > @@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ > .\" FIXME, mtk, May 2007: rendering this page yields the error: > .\" grotty:suffixes.7:1725: character above first line discarded > .\" > +.\" "nroff" ("man") (or "tbl") needs a long page to avoid warnings > +.\" from "grotty" (at imagined page breaks). Bug in grotty? > +.if n .pl 1000v > .TH SUFFIXES 7 2000-11-16 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > suffixes \- list of file suffixes > > -- > Bjarni I. Gislason -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
