Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.11
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

translated manual pages are written with non-ASCII characters, so
checks/manpages should not report "can't find numbered character"
errors on them.
Here is a patch.

Denis
--- /usr/share/lintian/checks/manpages.orig     2005-08-06 18:52:09.464071856 
+0200
+++ /usr/share/lintian/checks/manpages  2005-08-06 19:00:21.323297888 +0200
@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@
            next if /^\s*$/;
            # ignore errors from gzip, will be dealt with at other places
            next if /^(man|gzip)/;
+           # ignore 8bit character errors on localized man pages
+           next if /warning: can't find numbered character/ && $lang ne "";
            chomp;
            s/^[^:]://o;
            tag "manpage-has-errors-from-man", "$file", "$_";

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