Bug#671258: manpages: Too few (or no) warnings from "man" ("groff")
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:09:44PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> If "--warnings" is used, only warnings of type "mac" are
> issued. The full potential of "groff" should be used, using
> "--warnings=w".
I strongly suspect that this would be grossly excessive in many cases;
the default is "mac" for a reason. "man --warnings" is meant to be a
reasonable default for Lintian (I implemented it with that intent), and
it seems to me to be missing the point for Lintian to then override the
warning set to something else.
At most, additional categories should be emitted only at lower Lintian
tag severity levels. But it's probably quite tricky to sort out the
different categories reliably in Lintian.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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