On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:30:33PM +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> tag 667672 pending
> thanks 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:59:09PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > Package: manpages
> > Version: 3.27-1
> > Severity: minor
> > Tags: patch
> > 
> >   From "groff":
> > 
> > <standard input>:63: warning: number register `an-saved-margin1' not defined
> > <standard input>:63: warning: number register `an-saved-prevailing-indent1' 
> > not defined
> 
> (Please provide the command use to detect such issues, I was not that obvious)
> groff -man -Tascii -w reg -z man5/motd.tail.5 
> man5/motd.tail.5:63: warning: number register `an-saved-margin1' not defined
> man5/motd.tail.5:63: warning: number register `an-saved-prevailing-indent1' 
> not defined
> 

  I used

MANOPT='--warnings=w --locale=POSIX'
MAN_KEEP_STDERR=yes
export MANOPT MAN_KEEP_STDERR

  and (in a script))

man -l $manual 2> $tempfile

> man-db/lintian doesn't show any:
> http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/j...@debian.org.html#manpages
> 

  Thanks for pointing out the case with "lintian".
I checked the source for lintian 2.5.6.  There is a bug in the
checks/manpages script.  I will report that.

> groff -man -Tascii -w all -z man5/motd.tail.5 
> did show nothing
> 

  "all" is a misnomer, use "w".  Also use "-mandoc" instead of "-man".

> > @@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
> >  .TP
> >  .I /var/run/motd
> >  System message of the day file rebuilt at each computer start
> > -.RE
> >  .SH "SEE ALSO"
> 
> Fixed in git (for 3.40). 
> 
> >   Only one space after full stop (period) between sentences.
> >
> >   Patch:
> > 
> > --- motd.tail.5     2012-04-04 22:42:32.000000000 +0000
> > +++ motd.tail.5.new 2012-04-04 22:44:40.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -26,12 +26,12 @@
> >  .SH DESCRIPTION
> >  On Debian systems, the system message of the day is rebuilt at each
> >  startup, in order to display an accurate
> > -information. \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP is the file to edit permanent
> > +information.  \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP is the file to edit permanent
> >  changes to the message of the day.
> >  .SH OVERVIEW
> >  The initiation script \fI/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh\fP prepends a line
> >  containing information about the system to \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP and
> > -stores the resulting file in \fI/var/run/motd\fP. \fI/etc/motd\fP is a
> > +stores the resulting file in \fI/var/run/motd\fP.  \fI/etc/motd\fP is a
> >  symbolic link to \fI/var/run/motd\fP.  This is done to prevent
> 
> Fixed in git (for 3.40). 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Paillard

-- 
Bjarni I. GĂ­slason



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