[Pkg-shadow-devel] 4.0.12 news

[Nicolas François]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:19:20PM +0200, bubulle at debian.org wrote:
> I have updated the whole experimental branch to be compatable with
> 4.0.12, as Tomasz was king enough to rep-release the tarball for it.
> 
> The patches number has been again reduced significantly.
> 
> I have removed all patching of man pages files as this is always
> broken. We now only patch XML files, so we will need to re-generate
> the man pages files from the XML files at build time.
> 
> I personnally think that Tomasz should include the build of man pages
> from XML files in the build process, so that distro maintainers should
> only worry about patching the source XML files and not include the man
> pages build process in their own build process.
> 
> Besides this, lintian and linda send a lot of warnings about several
> man pages:
> 
> W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/id/man1/chsh.1.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
> ...

It is a bug in lexgrog, which seek a "NAME" section, or "NAME" translated in
some languages (but id, ko, ru and zh are not supported).
See the man-db changelog.

> W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/fr/man1/gpasswd.1.gz /tmp/zmanw4Lpoy:41: warning: can't find numbered character 233
> W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/fr/man1/passwd.1.gz /tmp/zman7Hr8JH:41: warning: can't find numbered character 224

This should get fixed soon: #321650 (patch by Denis Barbier)


For the other errors, I have no idea, but they may be lintian bugs.
(Maybe we should talk about this to Denis, if he already had a look at
lintian/internationalized manpages)

Kind Regards,
-- 
Nekral