Re: Bad whatis entry in texi2dvi.1

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 11:11:52AM +0100, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the lintian checker in Debian reports, that the manual page of
> texi2dvi.1 has a bad whatis entry. It refers to the output of lexgrog,
> which fails to parse.
> 
> hille@sid-amd64:~/devel/TeXLive/github/texinfo$ lexgrog texi2dvi.1
> texi2dvi.1: parse failed
> 
> Patch for Debian is trivial [1], but the file seems to be generated by
> help2man. Let me know if this is eventually an issue in the help2man
> generator.

I tried to reproduce the issue from the sources, both in the release and
the dev branch and I can't.  My guess is that it is indeed an issue with
help2man as the headers shows:
 
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.49.3.

I use a debian testing.

This issue seems to be in the sources tarball.  My wild guess is that
Gavin uses an older help2man with that issue.

-- 
Pat