Bug#578329: lintian.debian.org using outdated man-db

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:

> Severity: important

Er?

> 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.

Thanks -- we may need to skip some messages from man-db if the version is
too old.  I'm not quite sure what the issues is with this one.  It looks
like it might be a missing locale issue causing man-db to not be able to
transcode the man pages, rather than a problem with the man-db version.

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