Bug#629161: lintian: Outdated groff version used on lintian.debian.org

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

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On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 15:34:20 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
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> On 2011-06-04 07:35, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 22:19:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >> Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> >>> It seems the groff package being used on lintian.debian.org is
> >>> outdated and lintian reports errors from man-db due to unknown BSD
> >>> version strings (such as FreeBSD or NetBSD).
> >>
> >>> Can be easily seen in
> >>> <http://lintian.debian.org/tags/manpage-has-errors-from-man.html> by
> >>> searching for '.Fx' or '.Nx'.
> >>
> >> lintian.d.o is being upgraded to squeeze hopefully this weekend, which I'm
> >> hoping will fix this and a few other problems with the man page tags.
> > 
> > Ah! Perfect, thanks.

> Okay, we /still/ have this issue on lintian.d.o and it is running Wheezy
> now (i.e. stable+2 since the bug was reported).  I am no longer
> convinced that this is "just" groff being "outdated".

It seems the old problem got fixed at some point, but new versions got
released and groff didn't get updated yet. I've submitted a patch, so
now we'll need a newer version on the lintian host again. :)

Thanks,
Guillem