Package: groff-base Version: 1.21-9 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
Both manpages* makefile and lintian use groff a lot through "man --warnings" to identify potential rendering issues. However, since some versions, groff outputs warnings on several line, making the first line little useful, while : * it's the only line used today by lintian http://lintian.debian.org/tags/manpage-has-errors-from-man.html (seems it still runs outdated groff-base) Example on mapages-fr 3.51: W: manpages-fr: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/fr/man7/netdevice.7.gz file `<standard input>', around line 136: W: manpages-fr: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/fr/man7/signal.7.gz file `<standard input>', around line 197: * even not grepped, it makes it less readable if used on several files: netdevice.7: warning: file `<standard input>', around line 141: table wider than line width signal.7: warning: file `<standard input>', around line 202: table wider than line width This change occured in Debian bzr revision 512 in file src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp. Upstream changed this in http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/groff/src/preproc/tbl/table.cpp?root=groff&r1=1.20&r2=1.21 I'm not sure this was intended, but at least it creates some regression around. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages groff-base depends on: ii libc6 2.13-38 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-5 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-5 groff-base recommends no packages. Versions of packages groff-base suggests: ii groff 1.21-9 -- no debconf information -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
