Re: how to convert man pages?

[Giorgio Lando <patroclo7@xxxxxxxxx>]

Vincent Beffara ha scritto:
> Same thing _exactly_ on fink, with the same utilities. Even the package 
> names are the same ... Maybe your sgml file got corrupted somehow ? (It 
> should have md5 sum 67486818a233c9f1419c615ea3af5399 if it the last 
> version.)

The md5sum is fine, and actually this problem was identical in any 
recent version, and actually well known in my distro (the compilation 
recipe for offlineimap has always had a comment: "no man page for mow: 
it won't convert").
The problem is probably that the docbook2man in docbook2x is not the 
same as the one in docbook-utils in redhat/fedora and debian. But 
docbook-utils brings an incredible amount of dependencies in archlinux 
(and ATM I have never been able to go through this dependency hell, 
which actually includes lots of overlaps with other packages, such as 
that between docbook2x and docbook-utils), so it is not simple at all 
(for this reason I had asked if it was possible to provide an already 
converted man page in the tarball: docbook stuff seems to be not very 
portable).


Thanks for the help
Giorgio