Unknown macros in manpages

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at debian.org
Fri Feb 8 15:15:49 CST 2008


Well, this is more a mercurial test than really a bug report.  The bug is
minor and the proposed fix is trivial.  I am actually interested to know
whether I am using hg correctly and whether this way of submitting patches
would be acceptable.  Attached below is a hg changeset with the fix.

Anyway, the Debian checking tool, Lintian, is complaining now about unknown
macros in some manpages.  More details can be found in the changeset below.

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Rafael
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# HG changeset patch
# User Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org>
# Date 1202453731 -3600
# Node ID 8aac910c2ea0b6f2480c39359dcdd6766afc0f75
# Parent  1032e24f199f6679577c9f73af138913705d27d5
Drop .LO macros from manpages

The .LO are not documented anywhere and processing the manpages through man
(e.g. "man --warnings -l octave.1") yields:

<standard input>:20: warning: `LO' not defined

diff -r 1032e24f199f -r 8aac910c2ea0 doc/ChangeLog
--- a/doc/ChangeLog	Thu Feb 07 22:36:11 2008 -0500
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog	Fri Feb 08 07:55:31 2008 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ 2008-02-07  David Bateman  <dbateman at fre
+2008-02-08  Rafael Laboissiere  <rafael at debian.org>
+
+	* interpreter/octave.1: Dropped unknow LO macro
+	* interpreter/octave-bug.1: Likewise	
+
 2008-02-07  David Bateman  <dbateman at free.fr>
 
 	* interpreter/sparse.txi: Remove references to spkron.
diff -r 1032e24f199f -r 8aac910c2ea0 doc/interpreter/octave-bug.1
--- a/doc/interpreter/octave-bug.1	Thu Feb 07 22:36:11 2008 -0500
+++ b/doc/interpreter/octave-bug.1	Fri Feb 08 07:55:31 2008 +0100
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 .\" This page was contributed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
 .\" 
 .TH octave-bug 1 "6 March 2000" GNU
-.LO 1
 .SH NAME
 octave-bug \- report a bug in GNU Octave
 .SH SYNOPSIS
diff -r 1032e24f199f -r 8aac910c2ea0 doc/interpreter/octave.1
--- a/doc/interpreter/octave.1	Thu Feb 07 22:36:11 2008 -0500
+++ b/doc/interpreter/octave.1	Fri Feb 08 07:55:31 2008 +0100
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 .\" <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .\"
 .TH Octave 1 "Jan 8 1996"
-.LO 1
 .SH NAME
 octave \- A high-level interactive language for numerical computations.
 .SH SYNOPSIS


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