Re: ancient man-db version causes false positives
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 10:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Carsten Hey <c.hey@web.de> writes:
>
> > now that lintian bugs me more agressively in the PTS, are there any
> > changes that false positives caused by a ancient man-db version running
> > on lintian.d.o finally get fixed?
> >
> > See http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/c.hey@web.de.html for one
> > example, there are many more.
>
> Some of them are fixed in the current Git version of Lintian, but not that
> one as I've never seen that before. What causes that error and how can we
> tell whether to skip it?
It appears to be caused by the line ".SH SKŁADNIA" ("synopsis").
I'm assuming this is an encoding issue, as I can reproduce it on etch
but only with the locale set to "C"; in utf-8 or iso8859-1{,5} there are
no errors.
Adam
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