Bug#474052: [checks/manpages]: cannot adjust line, ... issues are not considered on localized man pages
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:03:43AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
>> We were wondering, why lintian did not complain with a
>> manpage-has-errors-from-man warning for a localized manpage, that
>> showed a "cannot adjust line" warning. The problem seems to be, that
>> the if-statement, that should avoid the "cannot find numbered
>> character" warning for localized manpages also excludes the other
>> issues, although they are IMO not a locale problem. Insteda they are a
>> GROFF issue, that can be fixed indendent from the locale.
>>
>> I attach the patch to show the problem and the possible fix.
>
> I wasn't very specific in my commit message then, but I don't think I
> added that just for fun. So if we remove it we should confirm that the
> issues that groff seemed to have with these pages are really gone.
Colin, could you comment on this? I vaguely recall that previously man-db
produced these warnings for Asian man pages or something because it had
trouble finding break points, but that memory is *very* vague and I may be
out to lunch. Is it safe to re-enable these warnings now?
(lintian.d.o would probably still lose since it has an old man-db, but we
do detect that and could disable these for stable man-db.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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