[Drbd-dev] drbdmanage lintian warnings

Roland Kammerer roland.kammerer at linbit.com
Mon May 11 11:22:06 CEST 2015


On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:54:03AM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> I compile my own debian package on jessie, but get many lintian warnings about
> man pages:
> 
> # lintian drbdmanage_0.34-1_amd64.deb
> warning: the authors of lintian do not recommend running it with root
> privileges!
> W: drbdmanage: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry
> usr/share/man/man8/dm-add-resource.8.gz
> W: drbdmanage: manpage-section-mismatch
> usr/share/man/man8/dm-add-resource.8.gz:2 8 != ADD-RESOURCE
> W: drbdmanage: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry
> usr/share/man/man8/dm-add-volume.8.gz
> W: drbdmanage: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man8/dm-add-volume.8.gz:2
> 8 != ADD-VOLUME
> W: drbdmanage: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man8/dm-assign.8.gz
> W: drbdmanage: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry
> usr/share/man/man8/dm-assignments.8.gz
> W: drbdmanage: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man8/dm-attach.8.gz
> ...
> 
> Can someone reproduce that?

Yes. 

The man-pages are autogenerated (see setup.py) and the process is not
perfect. Patches welcome. ;-)

Regards, rck


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