id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2431	Incorrect text in Man-DB page	chris@…	Matthew Burgess	"On the page for Man-DB, it says to apply a patch that will fix utf8 handling of col. However, it seems that the real issue is that, at that point, col has not yet been installed. Without the patch, the testsuite will fail when it attempts to run the nonexistent col program. The MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING variable set by the patch fixes this by simply telling the testsuite not to attempt to run col at all.

I guess the intent of the upstream patch *was* to deal with utf8, but in the context of the LFS book, when col does not even exist when Man-DB is being installed, it isn't really an accurate description."	defect	closed	normal	6.5	Book	SVN	normal	fixed