On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Harry Rickards<[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/22/09 18:56, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 19:39, Harry Rickards<[email protected]> wrote: >>> The package appears to be lintian clean apart from a few warnings that I >>> can't seem to correct (http://pastebin.com/f2ed86daf) >> >> please explain WHY you can't correct them. for example: >> >> W: ah: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/ah.1.gz >> >> patch the manpage >> > ... >>> I can't put the package on mentors.debian.net, as it requires a GPG key >>> to sign up. I use an OpenPGP Smartcard which uses subkeys, meaning it >>> makes mentors.debian.net kick up an error about multiple keys. >> >> mh, please follow up with mentors.d.n >> > ... >> >> Regards, > > Thanks for the advice. I've managed to get rid of all of the errors > apart from two. They are: > > new-package-should-close-itp-bug > and > manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/ah.1.gz > > I'm not sure if there is a way to fix the first warning, as there is no > itp bug filed (it's referring to the changelog entry saying it's the > first packaged version).
File an ITP bug, and refer to it in the first changelog entry. > I'm not sure why the second error won't go > away, as it seems the manpage needs to have a name and description in > the NAME section, seperated by '-' or '\-'. With either of these, the > error's still there. At the moment, I have: > > (1) User Manuals AH(1) > > > NAME > ah \- hex to decimal converter. > SYNOPSIS > cat hexfile|ah > *OR* > ah hexfile > > DESCRIPTION > > AntiHex is a pipe to convert hex values into decimal. > > AUTHOR > Developer: Zhaolei <[email protected]> > Package maintainer: Harry Rickards <[email protected]> > > Linux Last change: JUNE 2009 2 > I bet the problem is that you've got \- there and not just -. \- is needed by nroff/groff to make it output a -, but you shouldn't have \- in the NAME entry of the man page when it is viewed after being formatted etc. Oh, and that man page wins todays useless use of cat award :) // Alexander > Again, thanks for the help. > > > - -- > Many thanks > Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F) > > - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version: 3.1 > GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C++++ UL++++ P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ > w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D---- G e* h! !r y? > - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iJwEAQECAAYFAko/zKMACgkQ+9DWHFhEn298DAP+Po+NW2hgpdI1nsYhcC+IKVXq > e4DvHSuz4V53JCp6R87SGzr4qsGw88JdeSx5Hm626g6/D0EWy0NVQHYH+jBcOHM9 > op8h3AW49agfSwRAXsDVpBLXoOEjL2ln12So1Ur1dwvxS8IPA7eOkRa7UkBAFgCT > hKHR2/84p9I2NafpfDs= > =gyB9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
