[Slackbuilds-users] New orphans

[B. Watson]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2026, Jeremy Hansen wrote:

> @Kenneth Chan, help2man is now part of Slackware, so I'd probably remove the conditional to build the man page and just do it automatically.
> 
> (This is probably what B. Watson intended with his email, but I didn't realize it until testing on my chroot.)

Actually yes... I had forgot help2man is in Slackware, too.

The generated man page is awful. The NAME section think the program
is named "The", and it shows all the options twice. The trailer at
the bottom of the page, which e.g. for ls(1) looks like this:

   GNU coreutils 9.5                 March 2024                             LS(1)

...instead looks like:

   The full easystroke documentatioSeptemberl2026 at the following address:THE(1)

Also the header shows THE(1) as the program name (it should be EASYSTROKE(1)).

This is a problem too for "man -k" aka "apropos". With the package
installed, you'd expect "man -k gesture" to show you easystroke, but
it'll find "The" instead. Not helpful...

If it were my build, I'd fix that, even if it meant rewriting the man
page from scratch (I'd write it in RST and use rst2man, nobody really
wants to write raw troff).

Alternately, if the broken man page bothers you and you don't care
about it enough to write a new man page... just don't include it in
the package at all. It's just the --help output. Better not to provide
a man page at all, if it's broken.

Yes, I'm being overly nitpicky. These are ideas, suggestions, don't
take them as me trying to tell you what to do.