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

[Loïc Minier]

@Seth: I was only using /tmp/output to not write to the current dir; the
typical case is lintian creating a safe tmpdir.

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

** Changed in: lintian (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** No longer affects: groff (Ubuntu)

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

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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