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Bug#542584: [checks/manpages] false positives for some man pages?



Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: normal

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Hi

I'm not sure how to debug this issue, but lintian is complaining about
some errors in man pages, where I'm unable to get same errors from man.

The problematic thing is line adjustment:

W: rpm: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man8/rpmbuild.8.gz 85:
warning [p 2, 0.0i]: cannot adjust line

I've added patch to add \: at several places, what should ensure that
groff is able to adjust he line and it actually is able, but I still get
the warning from lintian even though man does not complain anymore:

$ LANG=C man --warnings -l /usr/share/man/man8/rpmbuild.8.gz >/dev/null
$

There must be some difference how lintian does the man page checks,
which makes it warn in cases when it probably should not.

The questioned man page is attached to this bug report or in package rpm
in case you want to test it.

- -- 
	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.23-0.1-default (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.19.51.20090805-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.47-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.15.3.1           Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.03-1             Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.17-6             GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.24             Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.84-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2            parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.1600-9           Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl           1.37+dfsg-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db                2.5.5-3            on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-24          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch    2.19.51.20090805-1 Binary utilities that support mult
ii  libtext-template-perl 1.45-1             Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                2.5.5-3            on-line manual pager

- -- no debconf information

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