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Bug#541147: lintian: Please use single quotes in message manpage-has-errors-from-man



Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.2.13
> Severity: minor
>
> An examples, trying to get more information, putting the lintian message
> in double quotes:
>
>   $ echo "W: wcd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/wcd.1.gz 1: warning: `PU' not defined" | lintian-info
>   <line hangs>
>
> Oh, there is backtick....
>
> SUGGESTION:
>
> Please present inly single quote characters in messages, that is, avoid
> use of:
>
>     `text'
>
> and use
>
>     'text'

That output comes from man, and there I believe from groff.  I don't think
it's appropriate for Lintian to try to rewrite error messages from
external programs.

I can reassign it to groff.  I don't know how likely the maintainer will
be to want to change this, though.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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