[groff] address@hidden: Bug#919890: groff-base: Incorrect page numbers position when exporting BSD-style (mdoc) documents to other formats (ps, etc)]

[Colin Watson]

Hi groff@,

Would any mdoc folks like to have a look at this?  Details differ in
1.22.4 and this patch doesn't quite apply directly, but much the same
problem exists; page numbers are printed on the left of odd-numbered
pages and on the right of even-numbered pages, when one would normally
expect the opposite.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       address@hidden

--- Begin Message --- Subject: Bug#919890: groff-base: Incorrect page numbers position when exporting BSD-style (mdoc) documents to other formats (ps, etc) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 16:53:19 +0200

Package: groff-base
Version: 1.22.3-9
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

I used the following to export man pages (ie ssh_config, written in
mdoc-style) to a pdf file for double-sided printing:
zcat /usr/share/man/man5/ssh_config.5.gz |groff -man -rD1 -Tps - |ps2pdf
- ssh_config.pdf

The page numbers in the resulting pdf file are placed incorrectly.

This does not affect documents written using the "man" format, for example
it will not affect the man.pdf resulting from the following:
zcat /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz |groff -man -rD1 -Tps - |ps2pdf
- man.pdf


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages groff-base depends on:
ii  libc6       2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libgcc1     1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii  libstdc++6  6.3.0-18+deb9u1

groff-base recommends no packages.

Versions of packages groff-base suggests:
pn  groff  <none>

-- no debconf information

doc-common.patch
Description: Text document

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