Bug#578329: lintian.debian.org using outdated man-db
>> 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.
Should this bug be closed now that lintian.d.o has been upgraded to
squeeze (and the missing locales installed?) or does there still need to
be some action taken?
Cheers
Luk
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