Missing newline/paragraph break in preformatted text

[df7cb]

The pg_buildext(1) manpage from postgresql-server-dev-all is rendered wrongly (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918129):

Original:

EXAMPLE
       debian/control.in:
             Source: postgresql-foobar
             Build-Depends: debhelper, postgresql-server-dev-all (>= 153~)
             XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest

             Package: postgresql-PGVERSION-foobar
             Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, postgresql-PGVERSION

Rendered on https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/postgresql-server-dev-all/pg_buildext.1.en.html:

EXAMPLE
debian/control.in:
  Source: postgresql-foobar
  Build-Depends: debhelper, postgresql-server-dev-all (>= 153~)
  XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest
  Package: postgresql-PGVERSION-foobar
  Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, postgresql-PGVERSION

Note that the paragraph break between the two sections is lost.

roff source:

.SH "EXAMPLE"
.IX Header "EXAMPLE"
.IP "\fBdebian/control.in:\fR" 4
.IX Item "debian/control.in:"
.Vb 2
\&  Source: postgresql\-foobar
\&  Build\-Depends: debhelper, postgresql\-server\-dev\-all (>= 153~)
\&
\&  Package: postgresql\-PGVERSION\-foobar
\&  Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, postgresql\-PGVERSION
.Ve

I believe this is a bug in debiman and not in the package/manpage.

[stapelberg]

Thanks for your report, Christoph.

This seems to be a shortcoming of mandoc, which we use for rendering:

% curl https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/postgresql-server-dev-all/pg_buildext.1.en.gz | mandoc -Thtml
[…]
<h1 class="Sh" title="Sh" id="EXAMPLE"><a class="permalink" href="#EXAMPLE">EXAMPLE</a></h1>
<dl class="Bl-tag">
  <dt><b>debian/control.in:</b></dt>
  <dd>
    <pre>
  Source: postgresql-foobar
  Build-Depends: debhelper, postgresql-server-dev-all (&gt;= 153~)
  XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest
  Package: postgresql-PGVERSION-foobar
  Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, postgresql-PGVERSION
    </pre>
  </dd>
</dl>
[…]

@ischwarze Could you take a look at this please?

Thanks,

[ischwarze]

Hi Michael, hi Christoph,

my impression is this is already fixed in the HEAD of mandoc development in CVS.

I just tested with mandoc-1.14.4 (latest release, released in August 2018):

 $ ./man -l -Thtml pg_buildext.1.en.gz
[...]
<pre>
Source: postgresql-foobar
Build-Depends: debhelper, postgresql-server-dev-all (&gt;= 153~)
XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest
Package: postgresql-PGVERSION-foobar
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, postgresql-PGVERSION
</pre>

and with mandoc-current:

 $ man -l -Thtml pg_buildext.1.en.gz
[...]
<pre>
Source: postgresql-foobar
Build-Depends: debhelper, postgresql-server-dev-all (&gt;= 153~)
XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest

Package: postgresql-PGVERSION-foobar
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, postgresql-PGVERSION
</pre>

I fear you won't be able to cherry-pick a bugfix, though. I recently did extensive work on improving paragraph handling, text filling, and support for literal paragraphs, see the brand-new journal article https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20190108193936

In particular, from that article:

In preparation for the above, large amounts of cleanup were performed,
improving separation of different modules of the mandoc program
and simplifying some aspects of the architecture.

How important is this? Should i roll a mandoc-1.14.5 release?
Probably, because there are also several other improvements, right?

Yours,
Ingo

[stapelberg]

Not too important, but a mandoc 1.14.5 release would be appreciated when you get a chance :)

Thanks for looking into it!