Bug#495713: lintian: false positive for incorrect pic macro usage in manual pages
Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org> writes:
> 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?
Lintian indeed doesn't know anything about *roff syntax and just runs man
--warnings. If you run man --warnings -l <path> >/dev/null on the file,
do you get the same error message?
If so, I think this is probably a bug in man-db.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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