Quoting G. Branden Robinson (2024-01-31 05:49:00) > At 2024-01-30T19:55:07-0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > While building a package preparing for a possible upload, I am getting > > a large number of warnings from groff-message due to invalid fonts for > > C and CB in the manpages that are generated from Markdown with pandoc. > > From what I understand, this is a known issue with how pandoc > > generates nroff man pages and more recent versions of groff have > > started complaining about the issue. Here is an example warning I am > > getting: > > > > groff-message troff:<standard input>:89: warning: cannot select font 'C' > > > > And it seems to match the issue documented here: > > > > https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9020 > > Yes. I work on groff upstream (and at rare intervals make minor > contributions to the Debian package), and you've accurately summarized > the situation. > > > My question is how to handle this. Should I just ignore it for now and > > upload anyways since it's only a warning or should I add an override > > to suppress it as it doesn't seem to be causing any breaking issues at > > the moment? Have other developers dealt with this warning before? > > Well, the version of pandoc that resolved the issue was 3.1.7, released > in August 2023.[1] But the version in Debian unstable is still 3.1.3, > and the package is team-maintained.[2] This particular bug is tracked in Debian as well: https://bugs.debian.org/1053777 > Unless it's release-critical to have these Lintian warnings, I would > disregard them in hope that the pandoc package in unstable will catch > up at some point soon. Unfortunately it is not likely that the package will be catch up soon, because the Haskell team upgrade most Haskell libraries only as a whole. That issue is not tracked in debbugs, because those vocal in the Haskell team actively discourages the use of debbugs: https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2024/01/msg00012.html - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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