Hi debian-devel, as of version 1.23.43, lintian checks for warnings in manpages with man's new --warning option (with man since 2.5.1). For quite some packages, lintian will produce an error like this:
W: wmweather+: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/wmweather+.1x.gz 191: warning: `UR' not defined This is because the groff version we have in Debian (which is used by man to render the manpage) does not support the UE and UR macro used by many manpages to specify URLs. (Instead, it supports the slightly less (?) powerful URL macro for that purpose.) $ man --warnings -l wmweather+.1 1>/dev/null <standard input>:191: warning: `UR' not defined <standard input>:193: warning: `UE' not defined $ Actually it is not really a problem, since groff ignores macros it does not know, so the manpage is shown anyway as expected, just without the URL link being a link. Additionally, it might be more appropriate to add UR/UE support to our groff package than to patch each and every package to have this problem fixed. Meanwhile, lintian could get some appropriate override implemented, so that the warnings don't show up anymore. Since I'm not sure what's best now, and I also don't really know about the reasons and motivation for different URL-related macros in roff implementations, I'm seeking advice, especially from groff insiders. Colin? Best regards, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
