man page not well formed xml for gnome-help

[Alan Bell]

Binary package hint: quilt

gnome-help man:quilt

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///usr/share/man/man1/quilt.1.gz#x-yelp-index
Line Number 396, Column 92:</p></div><h2>COMMON OPTIONS TO ALL COMMANDS</h2><div class="SH"><dl><dt><span class="Tag">
B--trace
P</span></dt><dd>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 15 18:19:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: quilt 0.46-8
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SourcePackage: quilt
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686

[gzarkadas (gzarkadas)]

This may has to do that the man page is not well formatted even for display to the terminal. The lines exceed the 80 character limit and the page looks ugly.

[Martin Quinson (mquinson)]

As the debian maintainer, I'm puzzled with this bug. The manpage is of course not well formated as XML since it's a man page, using groff macros as any other man page. I suspect that the main issue comes from gnome-help itself that does not like inline changes of font. Indeed, it failed on the line:

.IP "\fB--trace\fP" 8

so I guess that it does not liked the \fB commands.

But actually, I fail to reproduce that bug: gnome-help now manage to produce the proper output on my (debian) machine. Could someone confirm/infirm whether the bug is still there on the ubuntu side?

[Alan Bell (alanbell)]

works fine now in 12.10 Quantal