Re: Bug#494287: man-db: Supplies invalid -wmac option to nroff when run with --warnings
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 06:06:32PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:41:17PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I don't really want to make man-db depend on this version of groff,
> > though, as man doesn't require it during normal operations. Could you
> > just upgrade groff? Perhaps lintian needs to check groff's version
> > number too?
>
> Hmm, how long was this broken? I can't recall ever running into this
> bug...
It was never broken in any given coherent release, but I have a feeling
that Peter installed current man-db on stable or on a rather old
incarnation of testing.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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