Hi Michael,

Michael Stapelberg wrote on Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:12:33PM +0100:

> using LN="ln -sf" results in an absolute symlink for the whatis.1
> manpage, which we need to then change into a relative one to prevent our
> tooling from choking on them:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/mdocml.git/commit/?id=86403b72b1c47780cc626e046d65db04d2e3b622

That was easy to change.  1.14.2 (release not yet planned)
and 1.13.5 (to be released soon) will do it the way you want,
see below.

> The following lintian warning indicates a spelling error:
>   I: mandoc: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man7/mandoc_roff.7.gz
> parantheses parentheses

Fixed in OpenBSD and bsd.lv HEAD and VERSION_1_13.

Thanks for reporting!
  Ingo


Log Message:
-----------
Debian wants relative, not absolute symlinks for man pages;
suggested by Michael Stapelberg

Modified Files:
--------------
    mdocml:
        Makefile

Revision Data
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Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mdocml/mdocml/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.504
retrieving revision 1.505
diff -LMakefile -LMakefile -u -p -r1.504 -r1.505
--- Makefile
+++ Makefile
@@ -397,8 +397,7 @@ base-install: mandoc demandoc soelim
        $(INSTALL_MAN) soelim.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/$(BINM_SOELIM).1
        $(INSTALL_MAN) man.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/$(BINM_MAN).1
        $(INSTALL_MAN) apropos.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/$(BINM_APROPOS).1
-       $(LN) $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/$(BINM_APROPOS).1 \
-               $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/$(BINM_WHATIS).1
+       cd $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1 && $(LN) $(BINM_APROPOS).1 $(BINM_WHATIS).1
        $(INSTALL_MAN) man.conf.5 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5/$(MANM_MANCONF).5
        $(INSTALL_MAN) mandoc.db.5 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5
        $(INSTALL_MAN) man.7 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man7/$(MANM_MAN).7


Log Message:
-----------
fix spelling error;
found by Michael <Stapelberg at debian dot org> with Lintian

Modified Files:
--------------
    mdocml:
        roff.7

Revision Data
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Index: roff.7
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/mdocml/mdocml/roff.7,v
retrieving revision 1.75
retrieving revision 1.76
diff -Lroff.7 -Lroff.7 -u -p -r1.75 -r1.76
--- roff.7
+++ roff.7
@@ -1780,7 +1780,7 @@ maximum (not available in C)
 .El
 .Pp
 There is no concept of precedence; evaluation proceeds from left to right,
-except when subexpressions are enclosed in parantheses.
+except when subexpressions are enclosed in parentheses.
 Inside parentheses, whitespace is ignored.
 .Sh ESCAPE SEQUENCE REFERENCE
 The