Michal Čihař <ni...@debian.org> writes: > I'm not sure how to debug this issue, but lintian is complaining about > some errors in man pages, where I'm unable to get same errors from man.
> The problematic thing is line adjustment: > W: rpm: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man8/rpmbuild.8.gz 85: > warning [p 2, 0.0i]: cannot adjust line > I've added patch to add \: at several places, what should ensure that > groff is able to adjust he line and it actually is able, but I still get > the warning from lintian even though man does not complain anymore: > $ LANG=C man --warnings -l /usr/share/man/man8/rpmbuild.8.gz >/dev/null > $ > There must be some difference how lintian does the man page checks, > which makes it warn in cases when it probably should not. > The questioned man page is attached to this bug report or in package rpm > in case you want to test it. As near as I can tell, Lintian is just passing along the information from man-db. When I save your attachment and run man, I get the same output: windlord:~/tmp> env LANG=C man --warnings -l ./rpmbuild.8.gz > /dev/null <standard input>:85: warning [p 2, 0.0i]: cannot adjust line Could you be running this command in a wide xterm? It's sensitive to the width of the terminal. You can also set MANWIDTH to 80 in the environment to force the line length. I agree that man or groff does manage to split the line around a colon, but that doesn't seem to be something that it's willing to do without a warning. I'll update the Lintian tag description to include the MANWIDTH hint. I think the rest is either a man-db or groff problem or a place where the man page should be formatted differently. (I have no strong personal opinion between the two.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
