Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2.1 Severity: normal I was not able to get rid of lintian warnings in some man pages that made extensive use of the nroff ignore (.ig) command. I tracked down the problem to a weird behaviour of man.
It seems lintian uses the command "man -l --warnings" to check the sanity of a manpage. I did some experiments Using the following test manpage tst.1: ..TH TST 1 "Nov 2008" ..SH NAME tst \- Test man page ..SH SYNOPSIS tst -a -b -c ..SH DESCRIPTION ..nr Pb 0 ..if \n(Pb .ig ZZ I see this! ..ZZ Yes yes, this text is always visible. ..if !\n(Pb .ig ZZ I don't see this text, if Pb is zero! ..ZZ Using the lintian command string: $ man -l --warnings tst.1 > /dev/null <standard input>:10: warning: `ZZ' not defined it is seen that man complains about the last .ZZ, which is perfectly legal. However, running this: $ man -l --warnings=all tst.1 > /dev/null gives no output. The same is true for: $ nroff -man -wall tst.1 > /dev/null I don't understand what's going on here, but it seems that the --warnings option alone on man triggers a buggy behaviour. I suggest that the checking string in lintian is changed so it uses nroff directly, since that is what is invoked by man anyway. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-16 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
