Package: help2man Version: 1.47.8 Severity: normal Hi,
I'm creating a package of an updated version of libqmi which uses help2man to generate its man pages. Unfortunately, the resulting man pages have issues which cause lintian checks for the package to fail: W: libqmi-utils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/qmi-firmware-update.1.gz 99: warning [p 2, 6.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line W: libqmi-utils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/qmicli.1.gz 76: warning [p 2, 1.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: cannot adjust line Running the lintian checks manually gives: $ MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./debian/libqmi-utils/usr/share/man/man1/qmi-firmware-update.1.gz >/dev/null troff: <standard input>:99: warning [p 2, 6.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: can't break line troff: <standard input>:102: warning [p 2, 7.0i]: can't break line $ MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./debian/libqmi-utils/usr/share/man/man1/qmicli.1.gz >/dev/null troff: <standard input>:76: warning [p 2, 1.5i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: cannot adjust line troff: <standard input>:246: warning [p 4, 7.0i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: cannot adjust line troff: <standard input>:392: warning [p 6, 10.8i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: cannot adjust line troff: <standard input>:573: warning [p 9, 6.8i, div 'an-div', 0.0i]: cannot adjust line I will attach the offending man pages to this bug report. Here is the line causing the top warning from qmicli.1.gz: \fB\-\-dms\-uim\-set\-pin\-protection\fR=\fI\,[\/\fR(PIN|PIN2),(disable|enable),(current PIN)] The identifiers used in libqmi and family tend to be verbose and long which I guess is where the problem lies. Regards, Bob -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-gd8eac4f95 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages help2man depends on: ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii install-info 6.5.0.dfsg.1-4+b1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-3+b4 ii perl 5.28.1-6 help2man recommends no packages. help2man suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
qmi-firmware-update.1.gz
Description: application/gzip
qmicli.1.gz
Description: application/gzip
