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Re: ancient man-db version causes false positives



"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:

> It appears to be caused by the line ".SH SKŁADNIA" ("synopsis").
>
> I'm assuming this is an encoding issue, as I can reproduce it on etch
> but only with the locale set to "C"; in utf-8 or iso8859-1{,5} there are
> no errors.

Yeah, Lintian forces a locale of C for everything for consistent results.
The error message is very odd, though.  I find it a little disturbing that
man-db is trying to open files after seeing a non-ASCII character in a
section heading.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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