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Re: ANN: ncurses-6.4-20230617
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Sven Joachim |
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Re: ANN: ncurses-6.4-20230617 |
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Sun, 25 Jun 2023 11:09:46 +0200 |
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On 2023-06-17 19:53 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-06-17T21:33:04+0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> 20230617
>> + markup manpages with revision information (prompted by
>> discussion with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
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> Thank you for this; it's a definite quality of life improvement for
> those who spend a lot of time looking at man pages.
Indeed. Unfortunately there is a small problem: with the
"--with-manpage-renames" option (default in Debian), the .TH lines no
longer get replaced, and Debian's lintian tool goes nuts about it.
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| W: ncurses-bin: wrong-manual-section 1 != 1M
[usr/share/man/man1/captoinfo.1.gz:32]
| W: ncurses-bin: wrong-manual-section 1 != 1M
[usr/share/man/man1/infocmp.1.gz:32]
| W: ncurses-bin: wrong-manual-section 1 != 1M
[usr/share/man/man1/infotocap.1.gz:32]
| W: ncurses-bin: wrong-manual-section 1 != 1M [usr/share/man/man1/tic.1.gz:31]
| W: ncurses-bin: wrong-manual-section 1 != 1M [usr/share/man/man1/toe.1.gz:31]
| W: ncurses-doc: wrong-manual-section 3curses != 3X
[usr/share/man/man3/panel.3curses.gz:31]
| W: ncurses-doc: wrong-manual-section 3form != 3X
[usr/share/man/man3/cursor.3form.gz:32]
| ... [100+ similar lines skipped]
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It seems that man/make_sed.sh has to be updated for the improved .TH
lines, but I have not looked what exactly needs to be done.
Cheers,
Sven