From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B8DD3126B3 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1766590196; cv=none; b=q5nACzl7V3ot9AaB3BdPumWY0ixiJN0sfhAahxM7kqm0jwvsqaH/A8Hg03ozM1XNz5E+y0kyIhNdNTcAQNrNfUYcOCjH5UOQIDgUKby9K4F/G7qG5IQpV40Y4QBE/e+c35LjfEjyEjGMM7dz+AvTekN8gUNkhPLRq/IkWoMXzRI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1766590196; c=relaxed/simple; bh=RcI4z2anj1K7CSYodcfQgt+bFLj94xVAGBsBfJ6mm4c=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=XSlv0Qg/UgwAD1EdKWXunXP+2JF1ygN03xtuiSufiwktYeJKY4S4yFq/1pobSLb+VK0T8T1NCeYC5yqLyrg17Sn48XnpzGr9sFek62FeyXTvenCxDnwjmYyu3dqXvFFCdX+JrGIcZ5D67+vvgWlkA2ffSNX9T0NpbfX9m/kyXoY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Ib0EqAgz; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Ib0EqAgz" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 72B58C4CEF7; Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:29:51 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1766590192; bh=RcI4z2anj1K7CSYodcfQgt+bFLj94xVAGBsBfJ6mm4c=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=Ib0EqAgzs+ryiRymUWrZH+sgSuGguPMbp+7PO+yvCQxKYsXUPTZ74dASfQZhqN6w9 AEPrXzbnEAiFEZ5qD5aLWuAFb5wg00ty8NLJMdP8OacuWb+HiLphi9+LxafA/X1RBg 1LaF7ub/F1xoUG7wtMAGq5geOs/97AJh6zg63x54gDsh8duCxTIWmExr/ay+W1KOOw 6tzyzkEiuKvXmvx0tro95AJ+6xGb/KAFqWdP75+7vqefVrqyTuDfVaoY9lwFyj3MRY uFHbHyJpCrXsbQuaFIJwZU+V+lR3JnYZ969+iWk1o6qnbf8Ov4PMZ7B8KbJy8+M/zw FN0sTPUlSOLlw== Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:29:49 +0100 From: Alejandro Colomar To: Helge Kreutzmann Cc: mario.blaettermann@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Issue in man page mansect.1 Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gbt2lgwskjj6zpfu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --gbt2lgwskjj6zpfu Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Alejandro Colomar To: Helge Kreutzmann Cc: mario.blaettermann@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Issue in man page mansect.1 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Hi Helge, On Wed, Dec 24, 2025 at 02:38:21PM +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Without further ado, the following was found: >=20 > Issue: In Debian unstable this programme yields: Binary file (standard= input) matches, add "-a" in line 23 > Issue: Even with this patch, the output of this command is just a sing= le line. ".lf 1 /usr/share/man/man3/strtol.3.gz" The issue is that Debian compresses manual pages. Please consider changing the policy to not compress manual pages. The storage savings are irrelevant in this age. Please CC me if you talk about this in Debian. Have a lovely day! Alex >=20 > "$\\ B;\= n" > "\\&.lf 1 /usr/local/man/man3/strtol.3\n" > "\\&.TH strtol 3 2024-07-23 \"Linux man-pages 6.9.1\"\n" > "\\&.SH NAME\n" > "strtol, strtoll, strtoq - convert a string to a long integer\n" > "\\&.SH SEE ALSO\n" > "\\&.BR atof (3),\n" > "\\&.BR atoi (3),\n" > "\\&.BR atol (3),\n" > "\\&.BR strtod (3),\n" > "\\&.BR strtoimax (3),\n" > "\\&.BR strtoul (3)\n" > "\\&.lf 1 /usr/local/man/man3/strtoul.3\n" > "\\&.TH strtoul 3 2024-07-23 \"Linux man-pages 6.9.1\"\n" > "\\&.SH NAME\n" > "strtoul, strtoull, strtouq - convert a string to an unsigned long intege= r\n" > "\\&.SH SEE ALSO\n" > "\\&.BR a64l (3),\n" > "\\&.BR atof (3),\n" > "\\&.BR atoi (3),\n" > "\\&.BR atol (3),\n" > "\\&.BR strtod (3),\n" > "\\&.BR strtol (3),\n" > "\\&.BR strtoumax (3)\n" --=20 --gbt2lgwskjj6zpfu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEES7Jt9u9GbmlWADAi64mZXMKQwqkFAmlMBuwACgkQ64mZXMKQ wqnQWg//TWoqEVMAPzcqVbur07BpdEygHdDkvWP2z+5/HrFZeGjfROtDqY1WfLAu vyhZYVgS73pgOPoebHIv0hCKYtWyEtBRoz5HfKHnsxBiL6EBpR3BJCEiXBNcHIz5 EASYDdZ8WXCQotf4qNqCo2/EGjTueraFsY+38PDetQfLGgYGW2YBkkR1bKFWxRpu F0SfHTGZFYEp/MkFzzzRyEObD4xMSOJNLkdrdHRsjm4ZCCLiL1soNDDM55l4fpEn shWc5A9/YDz409U6Xv5a9pMVLnn2JUfJ0+E2RX9DXcmFLxXDaGZTwpcC49rBN4Zb 5e82ZdmSmaOGfL/BgdZz8b7TZdCEKFrZ80lQanE07D0TOigNFQLPC1YrBCl7Hszb GCJP4vmX+gbkpbbARtm5HVi58kB6/ykUICIsNFxev4ear6QsD4ZuzXvwczU5N6t+ 6baCFd/93Vd7cBARfDt+w3eBYLCUIQ7nN2H4CMv7lj2vi78P3ZiFmSIm9SDrAOrZ CYUMrhy7ZmtliLddgXZtJxP6Nx6jaEuABUZ5fGx43DGeOT6BV+m9J8JXLBWehwf5 rDsjPqeDjX/7j5RJnurSKwI3JOqMe2Yj+Ri4YVyL061elz91BIvQUGnxHwHJzxgJ bHijNNsYpIrrx4N3kc3rtJmXUpuv/3u4mVY/g6Px6vJdJ9o1SAY= =7TMT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gbt2lgwskjj6zpfu--