[pkg-wine-party] Packaging 1.1.37

[Scott Leggett]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:33:46 Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Scott Leggett wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'd like to assist with wine packaging and I've managed to build some
> > packages for wine-unstable 1.1.37, however lintian is spitting out
> > hundreds of warnings like:
> > 
> > W: libwine-dev-unstable: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry
> > usr/share/man/man3/winscard.3w.gz
> > 
> > I also notice that libwine-dev-unstable_1.1.34 in sid has similar issues.
> > It's apparently due to tools/c2man.pl:1450 which does not add a
> > separator and 'brief description' to the "NAME" section of the manpage.
> > 
> > Is the best solution to this to add a lintian override? Or should I be
> > looking at patching the script to add some kind of description? Or
> > something else?
> 
> The script itself should be fixed.  lintian overrides are wrong for
> this. I think there was some work in the past on that posted to this
> mailing list (search through the messages over the past couple years
> for that), and it may be on one of the git branches already.
> 

Okay, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.

> Best wishes,
> Mike
> 
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Regards,
Scott.