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Bug#542584: [checks/manpages] false positives for some man pages?



Hi

Dne Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:43:26 -0700
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> napsal(a):

> I agree that man or groff does manage to split the line around a colon,
> but that doesn't seem to be something that it's willing to do without a
> warning.
> 
> I'll update the Lintian tag description to include the MANWIDTH hint.  I
> think the rest is either a man-db or groff problem or a place where the
> man page should be formatted differently.  (I have no strong personal
> opinion between the two.)

Ah the problem is that it can not expand the line to the width because
there are no spaces in it. So it is indeed a man page problem, where I
don't have idea how to fix it properly...

But anyway thanks for MANWIDTH hint.

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	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com

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