[DRE-maint] Bug#380559: rdtool: Does not allow other sections to be defined.

[Caitlin Matos]

forwarded 380559 https://github.com/uwabami/rdtool/issues/12
thanks

I can't tell whether this was ever actually forwarded upstream. It is 
not in the GitHub issues, which have existed since 2011.

The bug has not been fixed, so I have filed a new issue upstream.

A resolution doesn't look promising, as there's been no upstream updates 
for almost 2 years, but we'll see. :)

Caitlin



On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:04:27 -0700 Robin Lee Powell 
<rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> Package: rdtool
> Version: 0.6.20-1
> Severity: important
>
>
> rd/rd2man-lib.rb gives no means of generating a man page for a
> seciton other than 1.
>
> The source includes the line:
>
> .TH #{title} 1 "#{Time.now.strftime '%B %Y'}"
>
> That "1" is hard-coded, and means that all man pages, even those put
> in other sections, will say (1) in them.
>
> Farther up it has:
>
> OUTPUT_SUFFIX = "1"
>
> I suspect (not knowing an Ruby at all) that putting something in the
> man page saying how to set OUTPUT_SUFFIX *and* changing the .TH line
> to use it would solve the problem.
>
> -Robin
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-vserver
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
>
> Versions of packages rdtool depends on:
> ii  librd-ruby1.8                 0.6.20-1   RDTool library for Ruby 1.8
> ii  ruby1.8                       1.8.4-5    Interpreter of object-oriented scr
>
> rdtool recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>