[Debichem-devel] Bug#1014740: Bug#1014740: pdb-tools: mangled manual pages: errors, duplicate text
Chris Hofstaedtler
zeha at debian.org
Thu Jul 3 16:08:51 BST 2025
user reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
usertag -1 + randomness
thanks
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 09:42:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 13:36 +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote:
>
> > This was caused by '--version' option not being supported by some of the
> > programs. Fixed in 2.5.0-2 upload.
>
> Looks like there are some more errors for --help, see this command:
>
> $ zgrep -iE -- '-help|not valid' /usr/share/man/man1/pdb_*.1.gz
>
> Also a lot of the manual pages are even more broken now, some of them
> contain just an error message from the program and no help text but
> that help text was present in the 2.5.0-1 upload. I used diffoscope to
> compare the 2.5.0-1 and 2.5.0-2 binaries to notice this.
The builds also do not seem deterministic now. Rebuilds on
reproduce.debian.net show such a diff:
├── data.tar.xz
│ ├── data.tar
│ │ ├── ./usr/share/man/man1/pdb_wc.1.gz
│ │ │ ├── pdb_wc.1
│ │ │ │ @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
│ │ │ │ .\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.49.3.
│ │ │ │ .TH PDB_WC "1" "September 2024" "pdb_wc 2.5.1" "User Commands"
│ │ │ │ .SH NAME
│ │ │ │ pdb_wc \- manual page for pdb_wc 2.5.1
│ │ │ │ .SH DESCRIPTION
│ │ │ │ -pdb_wc The following options are not valid: 'pel\-'
│ │ │ │ +pdb_wc The following options are not valid: 'epl\-'
I don't quite understand what goes wrong with sed et al, but that seems bad.
Please either fix it or if the manpages are useless anyway, drop help2man?
Chris
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