[Bug 2055402] Re: Though lintian call: error: troff: Segmentation fault

[Colin Watson]

Adding a groff task to fix the segfault even in the face of whatever we
decide to do about the profile (see
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?65427).

** Also affects: groff (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Bug watch added: GNU Savannah Bug Tracker #65427
   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?65427

** Changed in: groff (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: groff (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)

** Changed in: groff (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

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Title:
  Though lintian call: error: troff: Segmentation fault

Status in groff package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in lintian package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  groff crash when redirecting output to a file

  % man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz >output
  troff:<standard input>:3: fatal error: unable to flush output file: Permission denied
  groff: error: troff: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  man: command exited with status 2: /usr/libexec/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/libexec/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | groff -mandoc -Z -rLL=78n -rLT=78n -wmac -Tutf8

  This is typically triggered by lintian when scanning man pages

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