Re: Bug#377392: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?
>>>>> David Weinehall <tao@debian.org> writes:
>> A helper script, `lintian-man', could be introduced to hide all
>> the hackery, and to provide a way for the developer to reproduce
>> the problem. Then, Tag: may be changed to, e. g.,
>> `manpage-has-messages-from-lintian-man'. (Or should this script
>> be called `man-lintian'?)
> [snip]
> Sounds like a great idea in general. But: correct manual pages is
> not something that is specific to debian packages, so maybe manlint
> would be a better idea, also having it as a part of the man-db
> package instead might be an idea.
Well, one might then implement a generic method of passing Groff
options via `man', thus obviating the need to override the
`man.local' and `mdoc.local'. How about an environment variable
(say, `MANROFFOPT' or `MANGROFFOPT')?
> lintian already depends on man-db, so the dependencies wouldn't
> change, and it would also mean that linda can use the same check
> without code duplication.
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