Hello,

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.

I don't get it using the man page of groff. It alwas output a lot of man
page syntax. And my man page can not be that shitty. ;)

Thanks,
Christian

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Hello Étienne,

thanks for the reply.

Am 28.06.2024 13:00 schrieb Étienne Mollier:

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'

Best,
Christian

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