On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 19:55 -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> Lintian gave me this warning:
>
> W: emacspeak: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/emacspeak.1.gz
> 1: warning: `.' not defined
[...]
> N: This man page provokes warnings or errors from man.
> N: This test uses man's --warnings option to enable groff warnings that
[...]
> 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
That command shouldn't be included in the tag information, as it's not
what lintian is running. As the current text indicates, lintian is using
"man --warnings"; more specifically, having cleansed the environment,
it's running:
LANG=C man --warnings -l foo.1.gz > /dev/null
(see /usr/share/lintian/checks/manpages; much easier than a 6MB
strace :-)
Adam
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