Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.6-3
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/man

From
http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commit;h=d1302dd801ffa4ad8b65bee02cefa0459b0860e3
it looks like man might be a little too rigorous in checking for
invalid macros:

LANG=C man --warnings -l mdadm.8 > /dev/null

complains that '.XX' is an invalid macro.
This is not correct.  The sequence

   .ig XX
   anything can go here
   .XX

is correct and is ignored (see 'info groff' and the 'ig' index
entry).

However the same can be achieved with
   .ig
   anything can go there
   ..

and this produces no warnings.

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