[tz] troff(1) warning on zic(8)

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sun Mar 17 17:39:39 UTC 2024


On 2024-03-17 04:43, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I've been looking at tz.git to fix some indentation issues, and saw
> this warning in one page:
> 
> $ man ./zic.8
> troff:<standard input>:357: warning: unbalanced 'el' request
> $ type man
> man is a function
> man ()
> {
>      if command man "$@"; then
>          command man --warnings=w "$@" > /dev/null;
>      fi
> }

That's a false alarm from "groff -ww". The TZDB man page is fine and you 
can ignore the incorrect diagnostic.

I just now filed a groff bug report about the problem:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?65474


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