Bug#498082: lintian: false positive in manpages
Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes:
> W: mircpio: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/mircpio.1.gz list open at EOF! A .Bl directive has no matching .El
>
> I’ve got three manpages in mdoc(7) format with this error now. All of
> them are valid (at least I think so), but have nested lists:
> │ .Bl ...
> │ ...
> │ .Bl ...
> │ ...
> │ .El
> │ ...
> │ .El
>
> I think this triggers the manpage-has-errors-from-man bug falsely.
The error message is coming from man --warnings. It's possible that it
may have some sort of problem. Can you double-check first that you have
the most current man-db package? If so, I'll transfer the bug there.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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