Re: RFS: ah

[Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com>]

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On 06/22/09 19:39, Alexander Toresson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Harry Rickards<hrickards@l33tmyst.com> wrote:
...
> Thanks for the advice. I've managed to get rid of all of the errors
> apart from two. They are:
> 
> new-package-should-close-itp-bug
> and
> manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/ah.1.gz
> 
> I'm not sure if there is a way to fix the first warning, as there is no
> itp bug filed (it's referring to the changelog entry saying it's the
> first packaged version).
> 
>> File an ITP bug, and refer to it in the first changelog entry.

Thanks, I will do.

> 
> I'm not sure why the second error won't go
> away, as it seems the manpage needs to have a name and description in
> the NAME section, seperated by '-' or '\-'. With either of these, the
> error's still there. At the moment, I have:
> 
> (1)                     User Manuals                    AH(1)
> 
> 
> NAME
>    ah \- hex to decimal converter.
> SYNOPSIS
>    cat hexfile|ah
>        *OR*
>    ah hexfile
> 
> DESCRIPTION
> 
>    AntiHex is a pipe to convert hex values into decimal.
> 
> AUTHOR
>     Developer: Zhaolei <zhaoleidd@hotmail.com>
>     Package maintainer: Harry Rickards <hrickards@l33tmyst.com>
> 
> Linux                Last change: JUNE 2009                    2
> 
> 
>> I bet the problem is that you've got \- there and not just -. \- is
>> needed by nroff/groff to make it output a -, but you shouldn't have \-
>> in the NAME entry of the man page when it is viewed after being
>> formatted etc.


Even after removing the \, I still get:

W: ah: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/ah.1.gz


>> Oh, and that man page wins todays useless use of cat award :)

Do I get a medal? XD

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Many thanks
Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F)

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