Bug#506271: lintian: weirdness when checking manpages with nroff ignore commands

2008-11-20 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Mark, Thanks for looking into this! | allAll warnings except di, mac, and reg. It is intended | that this covers all warnings that are useful with | traditional macro packages. Admittedly, I overlooked this ... unusual that "all" means "all, but not

Bug#506271: lintian: weirdness when checking manpages with nroff ignore commands

2008-11-20 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, Thanks for your report and for indirectly forcing me to learn a little more about *roff while investigating it. On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 03:03 +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > I was not able to get rid of lintian warnings in some man pages that made > extensive use of the nroff ignore (.ig) com

Bug#506271: lintian: weirdness when checking manpages with nroff ignore commands

2008-11-19 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2.1 Severity: normal I was not able to get rid of lintian warnings in some man pages that made extensive use of the nroff ignore (.ig) command. I tracked down the problem to a weird behaviour of man. It seems lintian uses the command "man -l --warnings" to check the