Hi Christian,

c.buhtz@posteo.jp, on 2024-06-28:

from the past I do remember that lintian do use "groff" to validate/lint man pages and their syntax.
I would like to know the exact call including options that lintian use to execute groff on a man page file.

lintian-explain-tags can provide you with extensive information
about issues lintian may report. In your particular case, it
even should answer your question:

$ lintian-explain-tags groff-message
[…]
N: You can see the warnings yourself by running the command used by Lintian:
N:
N: LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \
N: man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z <file> >/dev/null
[…]

Hope this helps, :)
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On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 11:38:50AM +0000, c.buhtz@posteo.jp wrote:

lintian-explain-tags can provide you with extensive information
...
N: LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \
N: man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z <file> >/dev/null

Do I do something wrong? It is not working in my case (running on Debian
12):

groff LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./backintime.1 >/dev/null
groff: unrecognized option '--warnings'

You prepended "groff" to the command.

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