Carsten Hey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for being imprecise, I thought that you are aware of this issue > since Rhonda already reported it months ago. There is no error in > lintian itself, the error is in the lintian setup on gluck. > > lintian calls "(man --warnings -l $foo > /dev/null) 2>&1" to check > whether man reports errors in this man page. This works quite well with > an correctly working /usr/bin/man, but on lintian.d.o an old or badly > configured version of man is running which causes UTF-8 related warnings > although the man page is correct.
Right, this part I knew and I thought it was already fixed. Lintian already looks at the man-db version and suppresses some of these checks and a bunch of warnings if it's too old. > In pl/deborphan.1 SK£ADNIA is polish for SYNOPSIS but man thinks ADNIA > would be a file or something like this because of the incorrectly > working man. This is the part that I was missing. This isn't one of the warnings that it suppresses since I didn't know this could happen. > The reason for this errors could be a old version of man-db or a old > version of groff (or something completly different like non-UTF-8 > locales). A combination of man-db/bpo and groff-base/stable could also > be the reason since lintian does not call man/stable with the option > --warnings but it does use this option with man/bpo or man/sid and there > were some UTF-8 related changes[1] between groff in stable and groff in > testing. gluck.debian.org has etch man-db, which means that lintian.d.o is not using the --warnings flag. It sounds like this particular man page is producing errors even without that flag. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
