[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#787130: policykit-1: man page for pklocalauthority.8.gz contains 8-bit chars that don't work well with 'man' kioslave

[Stephen Dowdy]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-8
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

using command line 'man' doesn't show the problem in a normal terminal, but

    kman () { kfmclient newTab man:"$@" ;}
    kman pklocalauthority

shows that the ascii graphic representation of the filesystem hierarchies in section "EVALUATION ORDER" contains accented 8-bit characters instead of simple line drawing characters as the filesystem hierarchies in the section "DIRECTORY STRUCTURE" shows.

Please note, i have a debsums failure (below), because i HAND-EDITING my copy of that man page source so i could get a nice pretty-print from the 'man' kioslave in konqueror.

e.g:

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE section:
.nf
/etc/polkit\-1/
`\-\- localauthority
    |\-\- 10\-vendor\&.d
    |\-\- 20\-org\&.d
    |\-\- 30\-site\&.d
    |\-\- 50\-local\&.d
    `\-\- 90\-mandatory\&.d

EVALUATION ORDER section:
.nf
/var/lib/polkit\-1
â~T~Tâ~T~@â~T~@ localauthority
    â~T~\â~T~@â~T~@ 10\-vendor\&.d
    â~T~B   â~T~Tâ~T~@â~T~@ 10\-desktop\-policy\&.pkla
    â~T~\â~T~@â~T~@ 20\-org\&.d
    â~T~\â~T~@â~T~@ 30\-site\&.d
    â~T~\â~T~@â~T~@ 50\-local\&.d
    â~T~\â~T~@â~T~@ 55\-org\&.my\&.company\&.d
    â~T~B   â~T~Tâ~T~@â~T~@ 10\-org\&.my\&.company\&.product\&.pkla
    â~T~Tâ~T~@â~T~@ 90\-mandatory\&.d

The above 8-bit characters seem to get normalized to line-draw with command line 'man', but also appear not to be translatable with 'uni2ascii -B' or 'iconv -c -f utf8 -t ascii'.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.8.16-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-18
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.42.1-1
ii  libpam-systemd         215-17
ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-8
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0  0.105-8
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-8

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/share/man/man8/pklocalauthority.8.gz (from policykit-1 package)