[[email protected]: Bug#1142391: indent: First paragraph of manual page has missing text]

--7AWF6A1+lkI2PRWE
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline

Hello Andrej.

I received this report from the Debian BTS.

I'm attaching a patch which I believe it might fix it, but only as a
proof of concept (the patch also fixes two typos in the memsets),
for your review.

Thanks.

----- Forwarded message from James Youngman <[email protected]> -----

Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:45:53 +0100
From: James Youngman <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: Bug#1142391: indent: First paragraph of manul page has missing text

Package: indent
Version: 2.2.13-7
Severity: minor

From the manual page:

DESCRIPTION
       This man page is generated from the file  indent.texinfo.   This
       is  Edition   of  "The indent Manual", for Indent Version , last
       updated .


Notice that the edition information, indent version and last-update
are all simply missing.

[...]

--7AWF6A1+lkI2PRWE
Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="texinfo2man.patch"

diff --git a/man/texinfo2man.c b/man/texinfo2man.c
index e7b3f22..e13de5c 100644
--- a/man/texinfo2man.c
+++ b/man/texinfo2man.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 
 /* texinfo2man.
  * Convert a texinfo document to man format.
@@ -233,12 +234,12 @@ static void process_texi(
          }
 
          if (!strncmp(buf + 5, "EDITION ", 8)) {
-             memset(value_updated, 0, sizeof(value_updated));
+             memset(value_edition, 0, sizeof(value_edition));
              strncpy(value_edition, buf + 13, sizeof(value_edition) - 1);
          }
 
          if (!strncmp(buf + 5, "VERSION ", 8)) {
-             memset(value_updated, 0, sizeof(value_updated));
+             memset(value_version, 0, sizeof(value_version));
              strncpy(value_version, buf + 13, sizeof(value_version) - 1);
          }
 
@@ -294,9 +295,26 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
    texinfoname = argv[2];
 
-   in = fopen (argv[2], "r");
-   process_texi (in);
-   fclose (in);
+   {
+      char saved_cwd[4096];
+      char *slash = strrchr (argv[2], '/');
+      int need_chdir = 0;
+
+      if (slash)
+      {
+         if (!getcwd (saved_cwd, sizeof (saved_cwd))) saved_cwd[0] = 0;
+         *slash = '\0';
+         need_chdir = (chdir (argv[2]) == 0);
+         *slash = '/';
+      }
+
+      in = fopen (argv[2], "r");
+      process_texi (in);
+      fclose (in);
+
+      if (need_chdir && saved_cwd[0])
+         chdir (saved_cwd);
+   }
 
    in = fopen (argv[1], "r");
 

--7AWF6A1+lkI2PRWE--