Package: lintian Version: 1.23.3 Severity: normal One of my packages, pvm, contains several manpages of the form
.\" $Id: pvmd.1,v 1.1 1996/09/23 21:50:26 pvmsrc Exp $ .so man1/pvmd3.1 This triggers a flurry of lintian warnings (one for each man page) of the form W: pvm-dev: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man3/pvmfsetcontext.3.gz W: pvm-dev: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man3/pvmfupkmesg.3.gz W: pvm-dev: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man3/pvm_pkmesgbody.3.gz W: pvm-dev: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man3/pvmfpack.3.gz To me, it looks like this is because lintian only looks at the first line to check for ".so". A reasonable workaround would probably simply be skipping the first line if it is a comment, and check the second line instead. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.1 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.35-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 4.10-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.14.1-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii man-db 2.4.2-19 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information
