Package: man-db
Version: 2.7.5-2
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
A warning was issued.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
For example "man perl" with "MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes"
* What was the outcome of this action?
<standard input>:57: warning: number register `F' not defined
* What outcome did you expect instead?
No warning, as the macro "IX" is never used.
***
When a manpage is created from a pod file, using the file "Man.pm", the
register 'F' is referenced in the manpage (perl-modules 5.24):
[...]
.\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'.
.de IX
..
.if !\nF .nr F 0
.if \nF>0 \{\
.
[...]
To avoid a warning from "groff", the argument "-rF=0" must be added to
every call of "*roff" in "man".
My original bug report in Debian about "Man.pm" is Bug#674206.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.36-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 9.0.12
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59
ii dpkg 1.18.15
ii groff-base 1.22.3-8
ii libc6 2.24-7
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-14
ii libpipeline1 1.4.1-2
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b3
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 45.5.1esr-1
ii groff 1.22.3-8
ii less 481-2.1
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.9dev11-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-33
-- debconf information excluded
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Bjarni I. Gislason
