Re: whatis parse failed?

[Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>]

> >> Does anyone know the various reasons that the whatis parse from man-db
> >> would fail?
> >
> > Attach the relevant pieces of the manpage here...
> 
> I don't want to know for a specific manpage.  I want to write a test to
> see if it will fail.  I don't want to run mandb to do it.  I looked in
> the source to man-db but after 15 minutes I didn't see it and I didn't
> have much time to play with it.  I'd like to do this robustly but it's
> not a requirement.  :)

 Well.. I'd say that is a bug that something like this isn't specifically
defined...

 You can find a definition in man(7):

.SH NAME
chess \- the game of chess

 I would add to this that there can be several lines, documenting diferent
things.