On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:04:03 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Laurent Guignard <lguignard.debian@gmail.com> writes: > > > When i run lintian on my package i have this : > > > W: dhcp-probe: manpage-has-errors-from-man > > usr/share/man/cf/man5/dhcp_probe.5.gz Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide > > character > > W: dhcp-probe: manpage-has-errors-from-man > > usr/share/man/man5/dhcp_probe.cf.5.gz Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide > > character > > W: dhcp-probe: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man8/dhcp_probe.8.gz > > Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character > > > The problem is that there are more 80 characters on lines. > > Well, that may also be the case, but that's not actually what Lintian is > warning about. man --warnings thinks that you've got an invalid wide > character in your man page. > > The first thing to double-check is whether you have a UTF-8 locale > installed. If you don't, that may be confusing man. Lintian has to force > man to use UTF-8 or we run into problems checking man pages in languages > that have to use multibyte characters, such as Chinese. > > If that isn't the problem it may be that your man page is not encoded in > the correct character set for where you're installing it. You may be able > to correct this by using iconv on the upstream man pages to convert the > character set used upstream to what should be used on Debian (generally > UTF-8). > > -- > Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > Thanks Russ, I install locales and set to fr_FR.UTF-8 and lintian doesn't warning me about the man page. From several times i have problems with locales on several GNU/Linux distributions (Debian comes with solutions has you gave me ;) ). Thanks a lot, i will be able to upload my package on d.m.n to solve some bugs. Best regards. Laurent. -- Laurent Guignard, Registered as user #301590 with the Linux Counter Site : http://www.famille-guignard.org Blog : http://blog.famille-guignard.org Projet : http://sicontact.sourceforge.net GULL de Villefranche sur Saône : http://www.cagull.org
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