matthewfischer
commented
10 years ago I spoke too soon about no warnings, I was not seeing them because I was failing to redirect man's output to /dev/null. It's pretty easy to see them come back:
mfisch@virgon:/tmp/q/usr/share/man$ man --warnings -Z /tmp/dateutils.dadd.1 > /dev/null
hroptatyr
In the dateutils package the yuck generated manpages produce warnings, although this does not appear to affect the parsing of the manpage itself. I'm no expert on this but I think troff/nroff has a different format for comments. I've run this through groff a few times and I don't see any errors or backtraces. Let me know what you think.
W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.dadd.1.gz 1: warning: macro
/*' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.dconv.1.gz 1: warning: macro/' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.ddiff.1.gz 1: warning: macro `/' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.dgrep.1.gz 1: warning: macro/*' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.dround.1.gz 1: warning: macro/' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.dseq.1.gz 1: warning: macro `/' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.dsort.1.gz 1: warning: macro/*' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.dtest.1.gz 1: warning: macro/' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.dzone.1.gz 1: warning: macro `/' not defined W: dateutils: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/dateutils.strptime.1.gz 1: warning: macro `/*' not defined