[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#649128: tk8.4-doc: options(3tk) doesn't render properly

[Samuel Bronson]

Package: tk8.4-doc
Version: 8.4.19-4
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/man/man3/options.3tk.gz

For some reason, options(3tk) formats quite badly when viewed in the
usual way ("man 3tk options"): it screws up somewhere in the middle of
the second paragraph, and everything after that point gets jammed
together into one big paragraph.

(Thankfully, Emacs' `woman' (W/o Man, or simply WoMan) can format it
better. Not *too* surprising, since (as the name suggests) it does the
formatting all by itself, with no help from man or an external *roff
implementation, essentially ignoring stuff it can't understand. Which
likely includes whatever's screwing things up here.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

tk8.4-doc depends on no packages.

tk8.4-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages tk8.4-doc suggests:
ii  tk8.4                         8.4.19-4   Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -

-- no debconf information

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii  bsdmainutils           8.0.13            collection of more utilities from 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.35            Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                   1.16.1            Debian package management system
ii  groff-base             1.20.1-10         GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii  libc6                  2.13-10           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-3           GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

man-db recommends no packages.

Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii  elinks [www-browser]         0.12~pre5-4 advanced text-mode WWW browser
ii  groff                        1.20.1-10   GNU troff text-formatting system
ii  less                         436-1       pager program similar to more
ii  w3m [www-browser]            0.5.2-2.1   WWW browsable pager with excellent

-- debconf information:
  man-db/build-database: false
* man-db/rebuild-database: true
* man-db/install-setuid: false
  man-db/auto-update: true

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