Bug#578329: lintian.debian.org using outdated man-db

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

Package: lintian
Severity: important

I don't think this really belongs to the lintian package, but
the web site directed me here.

The tag manpage-has-errors-from-man has some false positives on
lintian.debian.org because the tests have not been run with the
current version of man-db.  In particular, the 'errors from man'
listed at
<http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/ben@decadent.org.uk.html#sgt-puzzles>
are not reproducible on an unstable system but are reproducible if
man-db is downgraded to the stable version.

Ben.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.20.1-3          The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.47-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.15.5.6          Debian package development tools
ii  file                   5.04-1            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.17-10           GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl        0.1.24            Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1            Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libipc-run-perl        0.84-1            Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2           parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl       1.2000-1          collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl            1.53-1            module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales                2.10.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                 2.5.7-2           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-11         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.45-1     Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.7-2    on-line manual pager

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