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", "$_";