>>>>> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>> W: libdirectfb-dev: manpage-has-errors-from-man
>> usr/share/man/man1/directfb-config.1.gz 24: warning: `l' not defined
>> W: dvidvi: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/a5booklet.1.gz 9:
>> warning: `IX' not defined
>> The lines like this seems to me somewhat bogus. I guess, `.IX'
>> allows one to specify an index item, and since `man' doesn't provide
>> any indices, this macro is left undefined, and thus ignored by `man'
>> (and it's okay.)
> Perhaps some of these should be explicitly ignored by lintian, as
> they're problems with popular generator tools and it really doesn't
> do anyone any good to report them in lintian; they should be filed as
> bugs against the generators instead.
ACK.
> (Unfortunately, you might have to parse groff's warning text in order
> to ignore particular cases.)
I'm not familiar with Groff at all... Does it allow later `.de'
to override the former?..
> .IX is probably from pod2man, which does:
[...]
> Russ, perhaps this should be something like this instead to suppress
> the warning?
[...]
>> A simple-minded approach to suppress these warnings would be
>> something like:
>> .de IX
>> .end
... And if it does, this definition just could be put into
lintian/groff-hack/{mdoc,man}.local, effectively suppressing the
Groff warnings.
>> but I believe that such a definition belongs to the macro package
>> `man' uses.
> man doesn't use any macro package of its own; it's all in groff. I'd
> like to keep it that way if possible. Anyhow, since this is a macro
> defined by a particular man page generator, it's not appropriate to
> handle it in either man or groff.
ACK.
>> W: dvgrab: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/de/man1/dvgrab.1.gz
>> 308: warning: `..' not defined
> Looks like a botched attempt to define a macro. (.. is what you use
> to terminate a macro definition.)
Looks more like a comment from the generator:
305 Sections, no Front\-Cover Texts and no Back\-Cover Texts. A copy
306 of the license can be found under
307 \fB/usr/share/common\-licenses/FDL\fP.
308 ...\" created by instant / docbook\-to\-man, Wed 13 Dec 2000, 17:30
[...]
>> W: dpkg-dev: manpage-has-errors-from-man
>> usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-checkbuilddeps.1.gz 27: warning: `UR' not defined
> .UR used to be what you used to mark up URLs; man(7) recommended it
> until not that long ago.
What to use instead?
[...]
>> W: dirmngr: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dirmngr.1.gz
>> 245: warning: `#'' not defined
244 Lines starting with a
245 '#'
246 are comments.
>> W: dirmngr: manpage-has-errors-from-man
>> usr/share/man/man1/dirmngr-client.1.gz 86: warning: `-vv'' not defined
85 verbose commands to \fBdirmngr\fR, such as
86 '-vv'
87 .
> I don't have this installed, but they look like typos.
Some misused quotes?
>> W: dialog: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man3/dialog.3.gz 1494:
>> warning: `..' not defined
> Maybe another botched attempt to define a macro?
1490 .TP 5
1491 .B const char * \fIfmt
1492 is the format of the \fBprintf\fP-like message to write.
1493 .TP 5
1494 ...
1495 are the variables to apply to the \fIfmt\fP format.
More like an Attempt to render ellipsis.
[...]
>> W: ddd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/ddd.1.gz 34:
>> warning: `PSPIC' not defined
> This is sort of odd; that macro is defined in cases where the output
> device is capable of drawing pictures using pic. I think it would be
> best to ignore this one, although the warning could be suppressed
> like this:
> .if d PSPIC .PSPIC /tmp/buildd/ddd-3.3.11/./ddd/PICS/dddlogo.eps 10cm
ACK. Alternatively, an empty definition in
groff-hack/{mdoc,man}.local could be used (``if not defined
PSPIC, define empty PSPIC''.)
[...]
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