Bug 883951

Summary: The zypper.8 manual pages are wrongly formatted
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 13.1 Reporter: Dennis Olsson <DOlsson>
Component: libzyppAssignee: E-mail List <zypp-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 13.1   
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Attachments: Patch to fix wrongly formatted "zypper.8" source.

Description Dennis Olsson 2014-06-24 08:36:07 UTC
Created attachment 595631 [details]
Patch to fix wrongly formatted "zypper.8" source.

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Using "man zypper" you will notice that in chapter "Repository Management" from the line reading "Supported IRU formats:" and on that the manual pages are being wrongly formatted in that the right margin is successively being moved to the left, until the manual is being formatted on a page width of just about the half of screen size.

The reason is a wrong usage of the ".TP" macro in the manual source.

Attached is a fix of the manual source that restores a correct formatting of the manual pages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man zypper
2. Scroll down to the chapter "Repository Management"
3. For each page scrolled on from here, notice that the right margin is successively being moved to the right, ending up with the max. page width of ca. half of the available screen width.
Actual Results:  
Formatted pages after chapter "Repository Management" has their right margin set to about the half of the available screen width.

Expected Results:  
Formatted pages after chapter "Repository Management" should have their right margin set as any other pages before this chapter.

Attached is a fix of the manual source for "zypper.8" that restores a correct formatting of the manual pages.
Comment 1 Michael Andres 2014-06-24 11:46:21 UTC
thanks; fixed in zypper-1.9.17
Comment 2 Swamp Workflow Management 2014-08-15 09:04:44 UTC
openSUSE-RU-2014:1025-1: An update that has four recommended fixes can now be installed.

Category: recommended (moderate)
Bug References: 883951,885254,888919,889426
CVE References: 
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    libzypp-13.10.4-23.1, libzypp-testsuite-tools-4.4.1-2.4.1, zypper-1.9.17-26.1