The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 804f0d0d8067eea002d54db56175e616a4c4579b
Author: Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Mar 1 22:44:58 2009 -0800
Force man to format to 80 columns
* checks/manpages:
+ [RA] Set MANWIDTH to 80 in the environment when running man to force
it to assume 80-column lines even when Lintian is run in a smaller
window. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #517629)
diff --git a/checks/manpages b/checks/manpages
index 47d994d..44c756f 100644
--- a/checks/manpages
+++ b/checks/manpages
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ foreach my $file (sort keys %{$info->index}) {
if (not defined $pid) {
fail("cannot run man -E UTF-8 -l: $!");
} elsif ($pid == 0) {
- my %newenv = (LANG => 'C', PATH => $ENV{PATH});
+ my %newenv = (LANG => 'C', PATH => $ENV{PATH}, MANWIDTH => 80);
undef %ENV;
%ENV = %newenv;
exec "($cmd >/dev/null) 2>&1"
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5a657a5..60de861 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ lintian (2.2.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* checks/manpages:
+ [CW] Run man with '-E UTF-8' to avoid producing bogus warnings on
localised manual pages due to attempting to recode through ASCII.
+ + [RA] Set MANWIDTH to 80 in the environment when running man to force
+ it to assume 80-column lines even when Lintian is run in a smaller
+ window. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #517629)
* checks/menus:
+ [RA] Cache the reference to the section list. Thanks, Raphael
Geissert. Also use all caps for global variables.
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