On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:36:27 +0100 Phil Wyett <philip.wy...@kathenas.org>
wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Good day Matt,
> 
> Apologies for the time it has taken for your valuable package contribution
to
> get the additional attention it rightly deserves.
> 
> Preamble...
> 
> Thanks for taking time to create this package and your contribution to
Debian.
> 
> The below review is for assistance. It is offered to help submitters of
> packages to Debian mentors improve their packages prior to possible
> sponsorship into Debian. There is no obligation on behalf of the subitter
to
> make any alterations based upon information provided in the review.
> 
> Review...
> 
> 1. Build: Good
> 
> 2. Lintian: Warnings and Information
> 
> W: badwolf: groff-message .Nm name ... (#135)
> [usr/share/man/tr/man1/badwolf.1.gz:8]
> N: 
> N:   A manual page provoked warnings or errors from the man program. Here
are
> N:   some common ones:
> N:   
> N:   "cannot adjust" or "can't break" are issues with paragraph filling.
They
> N:   are usually related to long lines. Justifying text on the left hand
side
> N:   can help with adjustments. Hyphenation can help with breaks.
> N:   
> N:   For more information, please see "Manipulating Filling and Adjusting"
and
> N:   "Manipulating Hyphenation" in the Groff manual (see info groff).
> N:   
> N:   "can't find numbered character" usually means that the input was in a
> N:   national legacy encoding. The warning means that some characters were
> N:   dropped. Please use escapes such as \[:a] as described on the
groff_char
> N:   manual page.
> N:   
> N:   Other common warnings are formatting typos. String arguments to .IP
> N:   require quotes. Usually, some text is lost or mangled. See the
groff_man
> N:   (or groff_mdoc if using mdoc) manual page for details on macros.
> N:   
> N:   The check for manual pages uses the --warnings option to man to catch
> N:   common problems, like a . or a ' at the beginning of a line as literal
> N:   text. They are interpreted as Groff commands. Just reformat the
paragraph
> N:   so the characters are not at the beginning of a line. You can also add
a
> N:   zero-width space (\&) in front of them.
> N:   
> N:   Aside from overrides, warnings can be disabled with the .warn
directive.
> N:   Please see "Debugging" in the Groff manual.
> N:   
> N:   You can see the warnings yourself by running the command used by
Lintian:
> N:   
> N:       LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \
> N:           man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z <file> >/dev/null
> N: 
> N:   Please refer to the groff_man(7) manual page and the groff_mdoc(7)
manual
> N:   page for details.

Hi Matt,

It has now bee some time with no updates or input from you as the submitter.
Is there still motivation to move forward getting this package readyand into
Debian?

Regards

Phil

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