Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Since this test should work in all environment, I think whoever created
this test must have chosen LANG=C with reason. I am not even sure if
en_US.UTF-8 exists in the test environment.
Then I also realized there are manpages in many old encodings and they
need to be tested by this script. Testing for the good UTF-8-ness is
not the right choice (although I suggested so in the previous report.)
So the right thing to do is like other exceptions given in the code.
Please apply attached patch to /usr/share/lintian/checks/manpages
(of course in source file as lintian-2.3.4/checks/manpages)
Osamu
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-10 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.54-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales-all [locales] 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile
ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/share/lintian/checks/manpages (from lintian package)i
Yes, I tested my patch :-)
I overrote this file with the fixed file (see attached patch)
--- manpages.orig 2010-04-10 15:30:41.000000000 +0900
+++ manpages 2010-04-10 15:41:44.000000000 +0900
@@ -258,6 +258,9 @@
next if /^\s*$/;
# ignore errors from gzip, will be dealt with at other places
next if /^(man|gzip)/;
+ # ignore errors from col since we are forcing LANG=C which is
+ # known to be incompatible for UTF-8 output generated by "-E UTF-8".
+ next if /^col: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character/;
# ignore wrapping failures for Asian man pages (groff problem)
if ($lang =~ /^(?:ja|ko|zh)/) {
next if /warning \[.*\]: cannot adjust line/;
