Bug#495713: lintian: false positive for incorrect pic macro usage in manual pages
Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.2.1
Severity: normal
If a man page contains
'\" p
on the first line, it tells man that it needs preprocessing with pic(1).
pic(1) requires the use of .PS and .PE (PIC start and PIC end) macros,
between which the pic drawing is specified.
wanna-build.1 (wanna-build, source sbuild) is flagged by lintian:
% lintian -i sbuild_0.57.4-1_i386.changes
W: wanna-build: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/wanna-build.1.gz 55: warning: `PS' not defined
However, man(1) when invoked by a user does not issue any warnings,
because the manual page is correct.
Please could you teach lintian to allow .PS/.PE macros if pic is
enabled. The same also applies to tbl (.TS etc.), eqn and other
packages also supported by man. If man is being invoked to do the
check, perhaps some option is missing?
Regards,
Roger
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.3-bytemark-uml-2
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.25-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
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