On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 12:32:26AM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> In a recent thread in debian-devel, it was suggested that
> lintian could call man(1) in such a way that the groff(1),
> called by `man', will emit warnings for every undefined macro,
> which is useful in catching the bugs like this:
>
> .B foo
> . Note: ...
>
> Below is the patch that implements the suggestion. Since `man'
> doesn't allow the `-wmac' option to be passed to `groff' by any
> other means, I've had to introduce two new files -- `mdoc.local'
> and `man.local' (to override the files in groff/site-tmac/), and
> the ${LINTIAN_ROOT}/groff-hack directory to hold them.
While I haven't reviewed the code in detail, the general approach seems
largely reasonable to me. However, the error the developer sees will
just be "manpage-has-errors-from-man", which in fact is no longer really
true in this case; you're specifically enabling warnings that man
doesn't show. Perhaps it would be best to turn these warnings from groff
into a different lintian warning which can have a more informative
description, and ideally a way for the developer to reproduce the
problem.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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