On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:36:27 +0100 Phil Wyett <philip.wy...@kathenas.org>
wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Good day Matt,
> 
> Apologies for the time it has taken for your valuable package contribution
to
> get the additional attention it rightly deserves.
> 
> Preamble...
> 
> Thanks for taking time to create this package and your contribution to
Debian.
> 
> The below review is for assistance. It is offered to help submitters of
> packages to Debian mentors improve their packages prior to possible
> sponsorship into Debian. There is no obligation on behalf of the subitter
to
> make any alterations based upon information provided in the review.
> 
> Review...
> 
> 1. Build: Good
> 
> 2. Lintian: Warnings and Information
> 
> W: badwolf: groff-message .Nm name ... (#135)
> [usr/share/man/tr/man1/badwolf.1.gz:8]
> N: 
> N:   A manual page provoked warnings or errors from the man program. Here
are
> N:   some common ones:
> N:   
> N:   "cannot adjust" or "can't break" are issues with paragraph filling.
They
> N:   are usually related to long lines. Justifying text on the left hand
side
> N:   can help with adjustments. Hyphenation can help with breaks.
> N:   
> N:   For more information, please see "Manipulating Filling and Adjusting"
and
> N:   "Manipulating Hyphenation" in the Groff manual (see info groff).
> N:   
> N:   "can't find numbered character" usually means that the input was in a
> N:   national legacy encoding. The warning means that some characters were
> N:   dropped. Please use escapes such as \[:a] as described on the
groff_char
> N:   manual page.
> N:   
> N:   Other common warnings are formatting typos. String arguments to .IP
> N:   require quotes. Usually, some text is lost or mangled. See the
groff_man
> N:   (or groff_mdoc if using mdoc) manual page for details on macros.
> N:   
> N:   The check for manual pages uses the --warnings option to man to catch
> N:   common problems, like a . or a ' at the beginning of a line as literal
> N:   text. They are interpreted as Groff commands. Just reformat the
paragraph
> N:   so the characters are not at the beginning of a line. You can also add
a
> N:   zero-width space (\&) in front of them.
> N:   
> N:   Aside from overrides, warnings can be disabled with the .warn
directive.
> N:   Please see "Debugging" in the Groff manual.
> N:   
> N:   You can see the warnings yourself by running the command used by
Lintian:
> N:   
> N:       LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \
> N:           man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z <file> >/dev/null
> N: 
> N:   Please refer to the groff_man(7) manual page and the groff_mdoc(7)
manual
> N:   page for details.

Hi Matt,

It has now bee some time with no updates or input from you as the submitter

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