Hi Alejandro!
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 09:14:26PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Package: python3-docutils
Version: 0.17.1+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/rst2man
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpages@gmail.com, groff@gnu.org, Quentin Monnet
<quentin@isovalent.com>
Hi,
When rst2man has no information to generate the 5th field to the
.TH macro (the one that sets the title line, i.e., the header and
footer of the manual page), it generates it as an empty argument,
that is "". groff(1) and mandoc(1) have good defaults for the 5th
field of .TH when it is not specified, so that most manual pages
should need to specify it, but to use that default, the field has
to be missing, and an empty argument is an existing argument.
Regarding this bug, upstream wants to know [1] whether omitting the 5th
argument will work with all troff/manpage writers.
I believe it is the case, but can you confirm?