bad-whatis-entry
A manual page should start with a NAME section, which
lists the program name and a brief description. The NAME
section is used to generate a database that can be queried by commands
like apropos and whatis. You are seeing this tag
because lexgrog was unable to parse the NAME section.
Manual pages for multiple programs, functions, or files should list each
separated by a comma and a space, followed by - and a common
description.
Listed items may not contain any spaces. A manual page for a two-level
command such as fs listacl must look like fs_listacl
so the list is read correctly.
For more information please consult:
- the lexgrog(1) manual page
- the groff_man(7) manual page
- the groff_mdoc(7) manual page
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check documentation/manual.
Visibility: warning
- manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry