checkinstall man page [was Re: Unidentified subject!]

[Jason Pepas <j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu>]

On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:47 pm, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:03:53PM -0600, Jason Pepas wrote:
> > > What's -mand? Perhaps you mean -mandoc.
> >
> > hmm, looks like I didn't copy / paste that correctly.  lets try that
> > again:
> >
> > (pts/3)jason@marsala:~$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz |
> > groff -mandoc - | gv
> > <standard input>:106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space
> > after `sp')
>
> Fine; I'd still like to know what's on and around line 106 of that man
> page.

(pts/2)jason@marsala:/tmp$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz > 
foo.zcat
(pts/2)jason@marsala:/tmp$ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/checkinstall.1.gz | groff 
-mandoc - > foo.groff
<standard input>:106: warning: `spec' not defined (probable missing space 
after `sp')

so it appears the problem in the stream is the output of zcat, so probably a 
problem in the manpage itself

(pts/2)jason@marsala:/tmp$ cat -n foo.zcat | grep -a3 106
   103  .IP "\fB--dpkgflags=[flags]\fP         " 10 
   104  Pass these flags to the dpkg (.deb) installer 
   105  .IP "\fB--spec=[path]\fP         " 10 
   106  .spec file location 
   107  .IP "\fB--nodoc\fP         " 10 
   108  Do not include documentacion files 
   109  .IP "\fB-d[0,1,2]\fP         " 10 

from looking at the rest of the document, ".SH" appears to be some kind of 
formatting keyword, so I guess it is problem with the man page itself.

-jason pepas