Bug#626066: Warning for man page, but "test for yourself" command shows nothing

[Richard Kettlewell]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc2~bpo60+1


N:
N:    This man page provokes warnings or errors from man.
N:
N:    "cannot adjust" or "can't break" are trouble with paragraph filling,
N:    usually related to long lines. Adjustment can be helped by left
N:    justifying, breaks can be helped with hyphenation, see "Manipulating
N:    Filling and Adjusting" and "Manipulating Hyphenation" in the manual.
N:
N:    "can't find numbered character" usually means latin1 etc in the input,
N:    and this warning indicates characters will be missing from the output.
N:    You can change to escapes like \[:a] described on the groff_char man
N:    page.
N:

N:    output. See the groff_man (or groff_mdoc if using mdoc) man page for
N:    information on macros.
N:
N:    This test uses man's --warnings option to enable groff warnings that

N:    a line when they are intended as literal text rather than groff

N:    these characters are not at the start of a line, or by adding a
N:    zero-width space (\&) immediately before them.
N:

N:    "Debugging" in the groff manual.
N:
N:    To test this for yourself you can use the following command:

N:
N:    Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
N:

richard@araminta:~/src/newstools$

The man page it doesn't like is attached.

ttfn/rjk

richard@araminta:~/src/newstools$ lintian -i products/rjk-spoolstats_0.DEV_amd64.deb W: rjk-spoolstats: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/spoolstats.1.gz Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character N: Other warnings are often formatting typos, like missing quotes around a N: string argument to .IP. These are likely to result in lost or malformed N: catch common mistakes, such as putting . or ' characters at the start of N: commands. This can be fixed either by reformatting the paragraph so that N: At worst, warning messages can be disabled with the .warn directive, see N: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l <file> >/dev/null richard@araminta:~/src/newstools$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l debian/rjk-spoolstats/usr/share/man/man1/spoolstats.1.gz >/dev/null

spoolstats.1.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data