Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.3-3
Severity: wishlist

"man --debug 5 tin" gives the following to stderr:

[...]
Starting pipeline: /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanyODzw8 | /usr/bin/tbl | 
/usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -Tlatin1 | less -is [input: 0, output: 0]
Started "/usr/bin/zsoelim", pid 19955
Started "/usr/bin/tbl", pid 19956
Started "/usr/bin/nroff", pid 19957
Started "less", pid 19961
Active processes (4):
  "/usr/bin/zsoelim" (19955) -> -1
  "/usr/bin/tbl" (19956) -> -1
  "/usr/bin/nroff" (19957) -> -1
  "less" (19961) -> -1
Active processes (4):
  "/usr/bin/zsoelim" (19955) -> 0
  "/usr/bin/tbl" (19956) -> -1
  "/usr/bin/nroff" (19957) -> -1
  "less" (19961) -> -1
Active processes (3):
  "/usr/bin/tbl" (19956) -> 0
  "/usr/bin/nroff" (19957) -> -1
  "less" (19961) -> -1
/tmp/zmanyODzw8:306: warning [p 4, 7.8i]: cannot adjust line
/tmp/zmanyODzw8:343: warning [p 5, 1.3i]: cannot adjust line
/tmp/zmanyODzw8:719: warning [p 10, 2.2i]: cannot adjust line
/tmp/zmanyODzw8:719: warning [p 10, 2.3i]: cannot adjust line
/tmp/zmanyODzw8:721: warning [p 10, 2.7i]: cannot adjust line
/tmp/zmanyODzw8:721: warning [p 10, 2.8i]: cannot adjust line
/tmp/zmanyODzw8:998: warning [p 13, 11.2i]: can't break line
/tmp/zmanyODzw8:1016: warning [p 14, 2.7i]: cannot adjust line
Active processes (2):
  "/usr/bin/nroff" (19957) -> -1
  "less" (19961) -> 0
Active processes (1):
  "/usr/bin/nroff" (19957) -> 0
--priv_drop_count = 0
free_hashtab: 4 entries, 4 (100%) unique

When typing "man 5 tin" (and the same problem occurs with other man
pages), the above warnings are sometimes displayed in the pager and
corrupts the output. I need to type Ctrl-L or something similar.

These warnings should be filtered out automatically.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4-20051215
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii  bsdmainutils                 6.1.3       collection of more utilities from 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.1       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                         1.13.21     package maintenance system for Deb
ii  groff-base                   1.18.1.1-12 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-15    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgdbm3                     1.8.3-3     GNU dbm database routines (runtime

man-db recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  man-db/build-database: true
  man-db/rebuild-database: true
* man-db/install-setuid: false


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