Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings

2008-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
tags 494287 pending thanks On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:46:17AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:33:11AM +1000, Peter Wright wrote: On 08/08 17:54:42, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:06:32PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at

Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings

2008-08-10 Thread Peter Wright
On 08/08 17:54:42, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:06:32PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:41:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I don't really want to make man-db depend on this version of groff, though, as man doesn't require it during normal

Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings

2008-08-10 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:33:11AM +1000, Peter Wright wrote: On 08/08 17:54:42, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:06:32PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:41:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I don't really want to make man-db depend on this version

Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings

2008-08-08 Thread Peter Wright
Package: man-db Version: 2.5.2-2 Severity: normal I noticed this problem when using lintian to test a custom package. Running man with the --warnings option produces stderr as follows: $ man --warnings bash /dev/null /usr/bin/nroff: invalid option -wmac $ It doesn't matter which

Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings

2008-08-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:03:59PM +1000, Peter Wright wrote: Package: man-db Version: 2.5.2-2 Severity: normal I noticed this problem when using lintian to test a custom package. Running man with the --warnings option produces stderr as follows: $ man --warnings bash /dev/null

Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings

2008-08-08 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:41:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I don't really want to make man-db depend on this version of groff, though, as man doesn't require it during normal operations. Could you just upgrade groff? Perhaps lintian needs to check groff's version number too? Hmm, how long

Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings

2008-08-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:06:32PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:41:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I don't really want to make man-db depend on this version of groff, though, as man doesn't require it during normal operations. Could you just upgrade groff?

Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings

2008-08-08 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 05:54:42PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:06:32PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Hmm, how long was this broken? I can't recall ever running into this bug... It was never broken in any given coherent release, but I have a feeling that Peter