[Po4a-devel] Bug#601025: man-db: lexgrog/apropos issues with some manual pages

[David Prévot]

Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.7-6
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hi,

I noticed that some localized manual page descriptions are not showed
correctly with lexgrog or apropos. These examples are pages from the
po4a package:

$ apropos -L es po4apod-display-po
po4apod-display-po (1) - (unknown subject)
$ apropos -L fr po4apod-display-po 
po4apod-display-po (1) - Afficher un document POD traduit (`a partir dun PO.

There are two issues in the French pages: “(`a” should be “à“ and “dun“
should be “d'un”.

Note that this page is built from a DocBook XML source file.

I also notice another one:

$ apropos -L fr Locale::Po4a::Ini
Locale::Po4a::Ini (3) - convertit des fichiers INI depuis ou vers des fichiersPO

“fichiersPO” should be “fichiers PO”.

Note that the manual pages are displayed correctly, maybe a preprocessor
is lacking when apropos or lexgrog is called for these pages.

$ zcat /usr/share/man/fr/man1/po4aman-display-po.1.gz | grep NOM -A1
.SH "NOM"
po4aman-display-po \- Afficher une page de manuel traduite \(`a partir d\*(Aqun PO\&.
$ zcat /usr/share/man/es/man1/po4aman-display-po.1.gz | grep NOM -A1
.SH "NOMBRE DE REFERENCIA"
po4aman-display-po \- Muestra una p\('agina de manual traducida de acuerdo a un fichero PO
$ zcat /usr/share/man/fr/man3/Locale\:\:Po4a\:\:Ini.3.gz | grep NOM -A2
.SH "NOM"
.IX Header "NOM"
Locale::Po4a::Ini \- convertit des fichiers \s-1INI\s0 depuis ou vers des fichiers
\&\s-1PO\s0

Regards

David

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii  bsdmainutils            8.0.13           collection of more utilities from 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.36           Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                    1.15.8.5         Debian package management system
ii  groff-base              1.20.1-10        GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgdbm3                1.8.3-9          GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

man-db recommends no packages.

Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii  chromium-browser [ww 6.0.472.63~r59945-1 Chromium browser
ii  dillo [www-browser]  0.8.6-3             Small and fast web browser
ii  epiphany-browser [ww 2.30.6-1            Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii  galeon [www-browser] 2.0.7-2.1+b1        GNOME web browser for advanced use
ii  groff                1.20.1-10           GNU troff text-formatting system
ii  iceweasel [www-brows 3.6.11-1            Web browser based on Firefox
ii  konqueror [www-brows 4:4.4.5-1           advanced file manager, web browser
ii  less                 436-1               pager program similar to more
ii  lynx-cur [www-browse 2.8.8dev.5-1        Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii  w3m [www-browser]    0.5.2-10            WWW browsable pager with excellent

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