Russ Allbery wrote: > Steffen Moeller <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> writes: > >> a fancy man page has this little section here (actually many of these >> sections and the package (torque) has many man pages, hence the bug is >> not minor) : >> >> ..if !\n(Pb .ig Ig >> ..ft 6 >> ..IP "\&\s-1\\$1\s+1\f1" >> ..Ig >> ..if \n(Pb .ig Ig >> ..ft 2 >> ..IP "\&\\$1\s+1\f1" >> ..Ig >> ... >> >> which means that the block may be skipped. >> >> lintian does not get it but warns about .Ig being an undefined macro - >> it is not. It is the end of the comment. > > Lintian doesn't analyze man pages itself. It asks man to do that, which > in turn asks groff to do that. So groff does not get this code, which > strongly implies that it's actually wrong, or at least being intentionally > warned about.
This is strange since running those page through nroff -man or groff -man is just flawless. I am attaching one of those bits: W: torque-server: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man8/pbs_server.8B.gz 239: warning: macro `Ig' not defined
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