On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:52:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If a man page contains > > > > '\" p > > > > on the first line, it tells man that it needs preprocessing with pic(1). > > pic(1) requires the use of .PS and .PE (PIC start and PIC end) macros, > > between which the pic drawing is specified. > > > > wanna-build.1 (wanna-build, source sbuild) is flagged by lintian: > > > > % lintian -i sbuild_0.57.4-1_i386.changes > > W: wanna-build: manpage-has-errors-from-man > > usr/share/man/man1/wanna-build.1.gz 55: warning: `PS' not defined > > > > However, man(1) when invoked by a user does not issue any warnings, > > because the manual page is correct. > > > > Please could you teach lintian to allow .PS/.PE macros if pic is > > enabled. The same also applies to tbl (.TS etc.), eqn and other > > packages also supported by man. If man is being invoked to do the > > check, perhaps some option is missing? > > Lintian indeed doesn't know anything about *roff syntax and just runs man > --warnings. If you run man --warnings -l <path> >/dev/null on the file, > do you get the same error message?
Yes: <standard input>:55: warning: `PS' not defined <standard input>:83: warning: `PE' not defined <standard input>:119: warning: `.changes' not defined It works fine for a tbl-using manual page, so perhaps it is a man-db bug for pic. I'm afraid I don't know enough about the man internals to verify this, but it would probably be most appropriate to reassign to man-db. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
