On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:03:59PM +1000, Peter Wright wrote:
> Package: man-db
> Version: 2.5.2-2
> Severity: normal
>
> I noticed this problem when using lintian to test a custom package.
>
> Running man with the --warnings option produces stderr as follows:
>
> $ man --warnings bash > /dev/null
> /usr/bin/nroff: invalid option -wmac
> $
>
> It doesn't matter which manpage is used.
Already fixed in testing:
groff (1.18.1.1-15) unstable; urgency=low
[ Forest Bond ]
* debian/groff-base.mime: Use the utf8 device by default, as most modern
systems use UTF-8 by default nowadays (LP: #174297).
[ Colin Watson ]
* Make nroff wrapper accept -w and -W options and pass them to groff to
enable and disable warnings.
-- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:12:14 +0000
I don't really want to make man-db depend on this version of groff,
though, as man doesn't require it during normal operations. Could you
just upgrade groff? Perhaps lintian needs to check groff's version
number too?
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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