Re: issues with lintian.debian.org
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 10:42 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 13:13 +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote:
>
> >> Secondly some of my packages seem to get the manpage-has-errors-from-man
> >> warning often (always as /tmp/zman*: No such file or directory). I have
> >> not been able to reproduce this in my environment (I use debuild so
> >> lintian always get run at the end of the build process). Any ideas what
> >> this is and if I should fix something?
[...]
> > /==========================================================
> > | $ man -l tmp/usr/share/man/man8/nslcd.8.gz >/dev/null
> > | man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `-'
> > | man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `*'
[...]
> > | man: can't execute /usr/bin/grap: No such file or directory
[...]
> Your man page starts with the line:
>
> '\" -*- coding: us-ascii -*-
>
> which inadvertantly matches the magic format man uses to indicate that
> preprocessors are needed for a given page. 'g' is the character
> indicating a preprocessor of grap, but grap is a separate program that
> isn't installed on the system where lintian.d.o is running (besides which,
> your man page doesn't use grap anyway).
Thanks for the explanation; I had spotted the "ignoring unknown
preprocessor" messages, but hadn't twigged the significance of the
message referring to grap.
Yet again, Lintian indirectly expands my *roff knowledge. :-)
Adam
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