Bug#495713: lintian: false positive for incorrect pic macro usage in manual pages
reassign 495713 man-db 2.5.2-2
thanks
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:37:56AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:52:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Yes:
>
> <standard input>:55: warning: `PS' not defined
> <standard input>:83: warning: `PE' not defined
> <standard input>:119: warning: `.changes' not defined
>
> It works fine for a tbl-using manual page, so perhaps it is a man-db
> bug for pic. I'm afraid I don't know enough about the man internals to
> verify this, but it would probably be most appropriate to reassign to man-db.
Doing so.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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