Bug#562789: lintian warns about multibyte errors in man pages, but doesn't say where
reassign 562789 man-db 2.5.0-1
thanks
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 02:10:19AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 28.12.2009 01:51, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> All the extra info (i.e. line number and error description) of the
>> manpage-has-errors-from-man check is generated by man itself.
>> It is very likely the bug is in man and not in the way lintian is running it.
>> (CC'ing Colin so that he can help check where's the bug)
>>
>> I tried but failed to reproduce the issue with
>> gfortran-4.5_4.5-20091223-1_i386.deb.
>> Is the package where you got this error publicly accessible somewhere?
>
> http://people.debian.org/~doko/tmp/gcc-4.5_4.5-20091226-1_hppa.deb
> http://people.debian.org/~doko/tmp/gfortran-4.5_4.5-20091226-1_hppa.deb
>
> I did run lintian on hppa.
The error may be due to #562518, although I can't reproduce it myself in
paer's sid chroot; can you confirm whether you still see it? However,
the uninformative error message is very likely a bug in man-db, so I'll
take it.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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