On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 02:30:40PM -0400, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for opening these manpage bugs. > > Lintian generates these manpages via perldoc. Could it be possible the > problem spawns from perldoc itself and not our manpages? These files have > not changed recently on our side. > > Otherwise, would it be possible to propose patches (preferably on Salsa :D) > for the Perl files themselves? At the moment, the patches proposed are not > really useful, as they don't exist in the source code. > > For example, for this bug, the file that's used to generate the man3 page is > lib/Lintian/Deb822.pm > Hi,
I do not know perldoc. For the input file, it can be made better by 1) removing trailing spaces 2) beginning each sentence on a new line 3) start each markup on a new line as long as the translator accepts that. The main culprit is the translator. So the natural way is to send the maintainers of it the input file and the content of my e-mail, showing the defects of the translation. Another possibility is to try other implementations of the translator.
