On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:57:44PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Colin Watson dixit:
> >would mean that line/byte numbers would be wrong, which could be
> >confusing.
>
> They are wrong anyway, as the macro packages count for byte numbers
> too, at least in the iconv example. But still a point:
Colin Watson dixit:
>would mean that line/byte numbers would be wrong, which could be
>confusing.
They are wrong anyway, as the macro packages count for byte numbers
too, at least in the iconv example. But still a point: we could just
wc the macro package first.
>mdoc; docj.tmac still has it, co
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 06:56:07PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Colin Watson dixit:
> >The Debian Policy Manual documents the current situation:
> >
> > Due to limitations in current implementations, all characters in the
> > manual page source should be representable in the usual legacy
>
Colin Watson dixit:
>Heh, you managed to find a case where it actually *was* a man-db bug
>after all! I did say "almost never", I guess ...
Happens ;-)
>This is triggered by your use of UTF-8 characters that aren't just
>recoded versions of ISO-8859-1 characters in comments at the top of the
>ma
reassign 498082 man-db
tags 498082 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 08:27:06AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Colin Watson dixit:
> >Please note that man-db is almost never the real source of this kind of
> >bug
>
> Okay, I did not know which of the many components may be the source
Colin Watson dixit:
>Please note that man-db is almost never the real source of this kind of
>bug
Okay, I did not know which of the many components may be the source.
>if you think the warning is incorrect, please reassign to
>groff-base, not to man-db. (I've reassigned this one.)
Thanks.
>Cou
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 12:02:06AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Russ Allbery dixit:
> >The error message is coming from man --warnings. It's possible that it
> >may have some sort of problem. Can you double-check first that you have
> >the most current man-db package? If so, I'll transfer the
reassign 498082 man-db
thanks
Russ Allbery dixit:
>The error message is coming from man --warnings. It's possible that it
>may have some sort of problem. Can you double-check first that you have
>the most current man-db package? If so, I'll transfer the bug there.
Oh okay. Sure.
ii man-db
Thorsten Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> W: mircpio: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/mircpio.1.gz list
> open at EOF! A .Bl directive has no matching .El
>
> I’ve got three manpages in mdoc(7) format with this error now. All of
> them are valid (at least I think so), but hav
Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.2.1
Severity: normal
W: mircpio: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/mircpio.1.gz list
open at EOF! A .Bl directive has no matching .El
I’ve got three manpages in mdoc(7) format with this error now. All of
them are valid (at least I think so), but have
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