On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 10:42 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[email protected]> writes: > > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 13:13 +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: > > >> Secondly some of my packages seem to get the manpage-has-errors-from-man > >> warning often (always as /tmp/zman*: No such file or directory). I have > >> not been able to reproduce this in my environment (I use debuild so > >> lintian always get run at the end of the build process). Any ideas what > >> this is and if I should fix something? [...] > > /========================================================== > > | $ man -l tmp/usr/share/man/man8/nslcd.8.gz >/dev/null > > | man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `-' > > | man: ignoring unknown preprocessor `*' [...] > > | man: can't execute /usr/bin/grap: No such file or directory [...] > Your man page starts with the line: > > '\" -*- coding: us-ascii -*- > > which inadvertantly matches the magic format man uses to indicate that > preprocessors are needed for a given page. 'g' is the character > indicating a preprocessor of grap, but grap is a separate program that > isn't installed on the system where lintian.d.o is running (besides which, > your man page doesn't use grap anyway).
Thanks for the explanation; I had spotted the "ignoring unknown preprocessor" messages, but hadn't twigged the significance of the message referring to grap. Yet again, Lintian indirectly expands my *roff knowledge. :-) Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
