lintian: Bogus complaint about wrong man page section

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.25
Severity: minor

When working on packaging for cyrus-sasl2, I noticed that lintian
incorrectly complains about an incorrect man page section.  To reproduce
this bug, grab rev 33 from svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-cyrus-sasl2

Build it and then run lintian -viI on the .changes file and you will see
the complaint from lintian about the sasl_getconfpath_t man page.

N: Processing binary package libsasl2-2-dev (version 2.1.22-1) ...
W: libsasl2-2-dev: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man3/sasl_getconfpath_t.3.gz:41 3 != 12 February 2006
N:
N:   A man page usually should contain a .TH header, specifying the
N:   section. The section in this manpage doesn't match with the section in
N:   the filename. Please consult groff_man(7) for more information about
N:   .TH syntax (amongst others).
N:

The interesting thing is that I checked half a dozen of the other man
pages and they all had the .TH line with the exact same format as the
page which triggered the warning.  However, lintian does not warn on any
of the others.

Regards,

- -Roberto

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.15-6        The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                   1.39-1        produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                       4.12-1        Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                    0.14.4-2      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian            0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  man-db                     2.4.2-21      The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl]  5.8.4-8sarge5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

- -- no debconf information

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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