Hello,
I'm an upstream maintainer and someone who do support the packaging
process on the site of Debian pointed me [1] to an lintian message.
{
"type": "failure",
"message": "groff-message 734: bad argument name 'P'
[usr/share/man/man1/backintime-config.1.gz:1]"
}
The related upstream source file must be this [2]. Using the search
machine of my trust it seems that errors like this are often false
positive. But I lack some basic knowledge about linitian work. That is
why I ask.
Based on the file the message points to it seems to be related to
manpage generation, right?
What is "groff-message"? Is this a commandline tool linitian used to
check manpage files for errors? I couldn't find it. I thought it would
be a good idea to look into its documentation and to run that test
myself to better understand it.
The line 734 [3] looks OK for me. Don't know what is wrong there. I'm
also not sure if the error points to line 734 in the unpacked file or
into the package gz-archive.
Just ignoring isn't an option for me.
Thanks for help.
Christian
[1] -- <https://salsa.debian.org/jmw/pkg-backintime/-/merge_requests/6>
[2] --
<https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/master/common/man/C/backintime-config.1>
[3] --
<https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/979b757d2cbbe65b332c5fd15244d400a9d80983/common/man/C/backintime-config.1#L734>