Re: TL2012: lintian warnings
Mitsuya Shibata <mty.shibata@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I checked some lintian warnings for TL2012/texlive-binaries.
> Listed up results in the mail, please advice and/or correct me.
>
> manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/detex.1.gz:1 1 != 1L
> - texk/datex/datex.man has section "1L" in head of the file.
> However Makefile make name to "detex.1". Which do we should?
> 1. Ignore with override.
> 2. Change section in file, need patch for detex.1
> 3. Rename file to detex.1l, need patch for Makefile.am.
I have just figured out that I asked the same question in 2004
(makeindex has the same problem)... I think the "L" is just garbage from
very old days. But I am unsure.
In case I'm right, I'd try to fix this upstream and ignore the warning
until that is done.
> manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man usr/share/man/man1/dvilj.1.gz:689
> - texk/dviljk/dviljk.pod missis last close list tag(==back).
> Therefore dvilj.man which is generated by pod2man remain error message.
> 1. Modify pod file, but to recreate man file, we needs add
> --enable-maitainer-mode to ./configure.
> 2. Modify man file, this POD ERROR has no mean for man format.
Same here - fix upstream, ignore meanwhile.
> manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/texlinks.1.gz:1 1 != 8
> - It seems that texlinks is command for sysadmins.
> 1. If so, we should patch to texk/tetex/Makefile.am to change section.
> 2. If not so, we should patch to texk/tetex/texlinks.man to change section.
I think you can also add formats in you user-specific fmtutil.cnf and
create the links with texlinks. However, IMO this utility is useless
for interactive use (if I can define a new format, I can make the
symlink to the engine faster than remembering the existence of texlinks,
let alone its syntax) and today of NO use for scripts.
Why not drop it upstream?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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