Package: po-debconf Version: 1.0.22 Severity: minor Additional remarks.
Mails from me to "[email protected]" are no longer acknowledged. A Debian maintainer told me, that he would contact the mail administrator about me not wanting to send bugs upstream. -.- Dear Maintainer, >From "/usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt.gz": Don't file bugs upstream If you file a bug in Debian, don't send a copy to the upstream software maintainers yourself, as it is possible that the bug exists only in Debian. If necessary, the maintainer of the package will forward the bug upstream. -.- For forwarding bug reports to upstream see: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#forward -.- "Handling bug reports" in http://people.debian.org/~enrico/dcg/ch03s02.html -.- I do not send reports upstream if I have to get an account there. The Debian maintainers have one already. -.- * What led up to the situation? Checking for defects with a new version test-[g|n]roff -mandoc -t -K utf8 -rF0 -rHY=0 -rCHECKSTYLE=0 -ww -z < "man page" [Use grep -n -e ' $' -e '\\~$' -e ' \\f.$' -e ' \\"' -e ' "$' <file> to find (most) trailing spaces.] ["test-groff" is a script in the repository for "groff"; is not shipped] (local copy and "troff" slightly changed by me). [The fate of "test-nroff" was decided in groff bug #55941.] * What was the outcome of this action? Output from "test-groff -mandoc -K utf8 -rF0 -rHY=0 -rCHECKSTYLE=0 -ww -z ": troff:/tmp/gz.roff.OmODEr:112: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail] /usr/share/man/man1/debconf-gettextize.1.gz troff:/tmp/gz.roff.vDyzte:478: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail] /usr/share/man/man1/podebconf-report-po.1.gz troff:/tmp/gz.roff.eUFZXL:113: warning: trailing whitespace [-w trail] /usr/share/man/man7/po-debconf.7.gz * What outcome did you expect instead? No output (no warnings). -.- General remarks and further material, if a diff-file exist, are in the attachments. -- System Information: Debian Release: forky/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages po-debconf depends on: ii gettext 1.0-3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6 ii perl 5.40.1-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.26 Versions of packages po-debconf recommends: pn libmail-sendmail-perl <none> ii perl [libcompress-zlib-perl] 5.40.1-8 Versions of packages po-debconf suggests: pn libmail-box-perl <none> -- no debconf information
Check the output from "lintian" in the Debian distribution. Any program (person), that produces man pages, should check the output for defects by using (both groff and nroff) [gn]roff -mandoc -t -ww -b -z -K utf8 <man page> To find most trailing spaces use grep -n -e ' $' -e ' \\f.$' -e ' \\"' -e ' "$' <man page> The same goes for man pages that are used as an input. -.- For a style guide use mandoc -T lint -.- For general input conventions consult the man page "nroff(7)" (item "Input conventions") or the Texinfo manual about the same item. -.- Any "autogenerator" should check its products with the above mentioned 'groff', 'mandoc', and additionally with 'nroff ...'. It should also check its input files for too long (> 80) lines. This is just a simple quality control measure. The "autogenerator" may have to be corrected to get a better man page, the source file may, and any additional file may. -.- Common defects: Not removing trailing spaces (in in- and output). The reason for these trailing spaces should be found and eliminated. "git" has a "tool" to point out whitespace, see for example "git-apply(1)" and git-config(1)") -.- Not beginning each input sentence on a new line. Line length and patch size should thus be reduced when that has been fixed. The script "reportbug" uses 'quoted-printable' encoding when a line is longer than 1024 characters in an 'ascii' file. See man-pages(7), item "semantic newline". -.- The difference between the formatted output of the original and patched file can be seen with: nroff -mandoc <file1> > <out1> nroff -mandoc <file2> > <out2> diff -d -u <out1> <out2> and for groff, using printf '%s\n%s\n' '.kern 0' '.ss 12 0' | groff -mandoc -Z - instead of 'nroff -mandoc' Add the option '-t', if the file contains a table. Read the output from 'diff -d -u ...' with 'less -R' or similar. -.-. If 'man' (man-db) is used to check the manual for warnings, the following must be set: The option "-warnings=w" The environmental variable: export MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes (or any non-empty value) or (produce only warnings): export MANROFFOPT="-ww -b -z" export MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes (or any non-empty value) -.-
--- Begin Message ---Trailing whitespace is so unnecessary, that its presence may be removed before files containing it are distributed. Some programs have a tool to point out its presence, like gcc with option "-Wtrailing-whitespace" git with option "apply --whitespace=..." and in ".git/config" [core] whitespace=... grep with option -e '[[:blank:]]$' less with command "/ $" mandoc -T lint default action
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