On 02.01.25 23:38, Reuben Thomas wrote:

Hello,

Also, I have had several reports that don’t apply to my project, because the
faulty markup was generated by help2man.

In this case I did not find a mark in the manual page "generated by xyz", hence I could forward the patch.

Since a PR was opened on GitHub for this issue, I have applied it upstream,
but I’m not sure it’s really a good use of maintainer time in general, when
the issues seem mostly to be trivial. I would be happier if this sort of
issue were brought to my attention by a linting pass when building the man
pages, e.g. if it were a standard part of the GNU build system.
>

The lintian quality checker has already some kind of checking for manual pages, but this could (probably) be extended. I'll keep this in mind, but the lintian people have a heavy workload too, so don't expect automated checks soon.

Hilmar
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