How does lintian use groff to validate man pages?

[c . buhtz]

Hello,

from the past I do remember that lintian do use "groff" to validate/lint 
man pages and their syntax.
I would like to know the exact call including options that lintian use 
to execute groff on a man page file.


I don't get it using the man page of groff. It alwas output a lot of man 
page syntax. And my man page can not be that shitty. ;)


Thanks,
Christian

Re: How does lintian use groff to validate man pages?

[c . buhtz]

Hello Étienne,

thanks for the reply.

Am 28.06.2024 13:00 schrieb Étienne Mollier:

lintian-explain-tags can provide you with extensive information
...
N:   LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \
N:   man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z  >/dev/null


Do I do something wrong? It is not working in my case (running on Debian 
12):


groff LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 
-l -Tutf8 -Z ./backintime.1 >/dev/null

groff: unrecognized option '--warnings'

Best,
Christian

Re: Bits from the DPL

[c . buhtz]

Hello,

for the folsk not involved with Debian GNU/Linux but monitoring it as 
journalists for example I have to ask.


Am 02.06.2025 17:30 schrieb Andreas Tille:

Interpretation of DFSG on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models


What is "DFSG"?


SPI Report


What is "SPI"?
Even the linked page on spi-inc.org does not explain what it is.

And by the way: "AI" is a marketing and sci-fi term. It is a thing that 
does not exist. Experts, like Debian people are, shouldn't IMHO not take 
over marketing terms but use correct technical terms; e.g. large 
language models (LLM). "AI" does wake expectations at users.


Regards,
Christian