Bug#629161: lintian: Outdated groff version used on lintian.debian.org
Control: tags -1 moreinfo
On 2011-06-04 07:35, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 22:19:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
>>> It seems the groff package being used on lintian.debian.org is
>>> outdated and lintian reports errors from man-db due to unknown BSD
>>> version strings (such as FreeBSD or NetBSD).
>>
>>> Can be easily seen in
>>> <http://lintian.debian.org/tags/manpage-has-errors-from-man.html> by
>>> searching for '.Fx' or '.Nx'.
>>
>> lintian.d.o is being upgraded to squeeze hopefully this weekend, which I'm
>> hoping will fix this and a few other problems with the man page tags.
>
> Ah! Perfect, thanks.
>
> regards,
> guillem
>
>
>
Okay, we /still/ have this issue on lintian.d.o and it is running Wheezy
now (i.e. stable+2 since the bug was reported). I am no longer
convinced that this is "just" groff being "outdated".
~Niels
Reply to: