package: sympa severity: minor W: sympa: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man5/sympa.conf.5.gz 222: warning [p 2, 2.2i]: can't break line N: N: This man page provokes warnings or errors from man. N: N: "cannot adjust" or "can't break" are trouble with paragraph filling, N: usually related to long lines. Adjustment can be helped by left N: justifying, breaks can be helped with hyphenation, see "Manipulating N: Filling and Adjusting" and "Manipulating Hyphenation" in the groff N: manual (see info groff). N: N: "can't find numbered character" usually means latin1 etc in the input, N: and this warning indicates characters will be missing from the output. N: You can change to escapes like \[:a] described on the groff_char man N: page. N: N: Other warnings are often formatting typos, like missing quotes around a N: string argument to .IP. These are likely to result in lost or malformed N: output. See the groff_man (or groff_mdoc if using mdoc) man page for N: information on macros. N: N: This test uses man's --warnings option to enable groff warnings that N: catch common mistakes, such as putting . or ' characters at the start of N: a line when they are intended as literal text rather than groff N: commands. This can be fixed either by reformatting the paragraph so that N: these characters are not at the start of a line, or by adding a N: zero-width space (\&) immediately before them. N: N: At worst, warning messages can be disabled with the .warn directive, see N: "Debugging" in the groff manual. N: N: Lintian also stricter in regards to declaring manpage preprocessors. N: N: To test this for yourself you can use the following command: N: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \ N: man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z <file> >/dev/null N: N: Refer to the groff_man(7) manual page and the groff_mdoc(7) manual page N: for details. N: N: Severity: normal, Certainty: certain N: N: Check: manpages, Type: binary
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