[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#737582: zsh: Help files in /usr/share/zsh/help cut at 58th column

[Daniel Hahler]

Package: zsh
Version: 5.0.5-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

the help files, which are used also by run-help, are cropped at column 58:

  % head -n5 /usr/share/zsh/help/read
  read  [  -rszpqAclneE ] [ -t [ num ] ] [ -k [ num ] ] [ -d
   [ -u n ] [ name[?prompt] ] [ name ...  ]
         Read  one  line and break it into fields using  the
         $IFS  as  separators,  except  as noted below.  The
         assigned to the first name, the second field to the

The build process (debian/rules) appears to use this to build them:

	perl $(CURDIR)/Util/helpfiles /dev/stdin debian/zsh-common/usr/share/zsh/help

This might be related to the following upstream commit:

  * commit beb4084
  | Author: Martin Vaeth <vaeth at mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
  | Date:   Fri Dec 13 22:55:05 2013 -0800
  | 
  |     32105: support combinations of man or nroff with colcrt or col.
  | 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers saucy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'saucy-updates'), (500, 'saucy-security'), (500, 'saucy'), (150, 'testing'), (100, 'saucy-backports'), (50, 'trusty'), (50, 'experimental'), (50, 'unstable'), (50, 'stable'), (50, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages zsh depends on:
ii  libc6       2.17-93ubuntu4
ii  libcap2     1:2.22-1.2ubuntu2
ii  libtinfo5   5.9+20130608-1ubuntu1
ii  zsh-common  5.0.5-1

Versions of packages zsh recommends:
ii  libncursesw5  5.9+20130608-1ubuntu1
ii  libpcre3      1:8.31-2

Versions of packages zsh suggests:
pn  zsh-doc  <none>

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