Paul Gevers: > Hi Niels, > > On 24-04-2020 20:23, Niels Thykier wrote:> Devil is in the detail. The > .TH/.Dt line is incorrect but not >> "incorrect enough" for dh_installman to ignore it. The version number >> is treated as a section "0.15.0" which the "real" section (the X in >> /usr/share/man/manX/foo.X.gz) as 0. >> >> I have added some code to catch obvious version numbers and ignore those >> as well as out of bounds sections. That said, there is limits to how >> much brokenness this can recover from (a disclaimer for future reference). > > Thanks for looking into it. I haven't checked your fix (if it's already > available) but I noted in the man page that the .TH line should have an > exact amount on entries. I trust you know this and count the number of > entries now, no? I mean, the pasdoc man page had more entries than allowed. > > Paul >
I just pushed it. It is nothing fancy and debhelper never fully validated the .TH (or the .Dt) line. Patches welcome for that (provided it doable in a "reasonable" size) but I have not written it. ~Niels
