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Bug#626066: marked as done (Warning for man page, but "test for yourself" command shows nothing)

Your message dated Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:28:39 +0100
with message-id <4F4371D7.4050709@thykier.net>
and subject line Re: Warning for man page, but "test for yourself" command shows nothing
has caused the Debian Bug report #626066,
regarding Warning for man page, but "test for yourself" command shows nothing
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc2~bpo60+1
richard@araminta:~/src/newstools$ lintian -i products/rjk-spoolstats_0.DEV_amd64.deb W: rjk-spoolstats: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/spoolstats.1.gz Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character 
N:
N:    This man page provokes warnings or errors from man.
N:
N:    "cannot adjust" or "can't break" are trouble with paragraph filling,
N:    usually related to long lines. Adjustment can be helped by left
N:    justifying, breaks can be helped with hyphenation, see "Manipulating
N:    Filling and Adjusting" and "Manipulating Hyphenation" in the manual.
N:
N:    "can't find numbered character" usually means latin1 etc in the input,
N:    and this warning indicates characters will be missing from the output.
N:    You can change to escapes like \[:a] described on the groff_char man
N:    page.
N:
N: Other warnings are often formatting typos, like missing quotes around a N: string argument to .IP. These are likely to result in lost or malformed 
N:    output. See the groff_man (or groff_mdoc if using mdoc) man page for
N:    information on macros.
N:
N:    This test uses man's --warnings option to enable groff warnings that
N: catch common mistakes, such as putting . or ' characters at the start of 
N:    a line when they are intended as literal text rather than groff
N: commands. This can be fixed either by reformatting the paragraph so that 
N:    these characters are not at the start of a line, or by adding a
N:    zero-width space (\&) immediately before them.
N:
N: At worst, warning messages can be disabled with the .warn directive, see 
N:    "Debugging" in the groff manual.
N:
N:    To test this for yourself you can use the following command:
N: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l <file> >/dev/null 
N:
N:    Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
N:
richard@araminta:~/src/newstools$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l debian/rjk-spoolstats/usr/share/man/man1/spoolstats.1.gz >/dev/null 
richard@araminta:~/src/newstools$

The man page it doesn't like is attached.

ttfn/rjk

Attachment: spoolstats.1.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data


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Hi,

Thanks for the follow up (and sorry for the lack of responds on our
part).  I have taken the liberty of closing this bug as you reported it
was a broken locale that you have already fixed.

On a related note, the next version of Lintian (2.5.5) will be using the
locale from libc-bin (in Wheezy).  This should hopefully reduce future
issues of this kind.  :)

~Niels

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