Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.2
Severity: normal
Lintian gave me this warning:
W: emacspeak: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/emacspeak.1.gz
1: warning: `.' not defined
N:
N: This man page provokes warnings or errors from man.
N:
N: "cannot adjust" or "can't break" are trouble with paragraph filling,
N: usually related to long lines. Adjustment can be helped by left
N: justifying, breaks can be helped with hyphenation, see "Manipulating
N: Filling and Adjusting" and "Manipulating Hyphenation" in the manual.
N:
N: "can't find numbered character" usually means latin1 etc in the input,
N: and this warning indicates characters will be missing from the output.
N: You can change to escapes like \[:a] described on the groff_char man
N: page.
N:
N: Other warnings are often formatting typos, like missing quotes around
N: a string argument to .IP. These are likely to result in lost or
N: malformed output. See the groff_man (or groff_mdoc if using mdoc) man
N: page for information on macros.
N:
N: This test uses man's --warnings option to enable groff warnings that
N: catch common mistakes, such as putting . or ' characters at the start
N: of a line when they are intended as literal text rather than groff
N: commands. This can be fixed either by reformatting the paragraph so
N: that these characters are not at the start of a line, or by adding a
N: zero-width space (\&) immediately before them.
N:
N: At worst, warning messages can be disabled with the .warn directive,
N: see "Debugging" in the groff manual.
N:
I couldn't reproduce the warning with man, making it difficult to fix
the bug. Eventually I resorted to scanning a 6MB strace log of the
lintian run, and found an nroff command that would reproduce the
error. That nroff command should appear in the lintian extended help
for this error:
nroff -mandoc -wmac -Tascii foo.1.gz
- Jim Van Zandt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.24-4 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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