[zeromq-dev] Debian package / small manpage issue

[Martin Sustrik]

Hi Adrian,

> Is anyone already preparing a Debian package?
> 
> If not: I'm working on it.   Will take me some time because the packaging is 
> somewhat nontrivial with all those language bindings; and it appears openpgm 
> is not packaged yet, either.

Have a look into packages/debian subdirectory. There's a debian package 
skeleton by Peter Busser. Maybe it'll be of help to you.

> Is there some kind of zeromq-announce mailing list?  I'll probably not have 
> the time to follow the dev list in full.

Hm. True. The traffic on dev list is becoming quite intense. Let me 
create the announce mailing list.

> What I already saw:  lintian (Debian's package cheker) complains:
> 
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_cl.7.gz         
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_cpp.7.gz        
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_inproc.7.gz     
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_ipc.7.gz        
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_pgm.7.gz        
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_python.7.gz     
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_ruby.7.gz       
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_tcp.7.gz        
> W: libzmq0: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man7/zmq_udp.7.gz        
> 
> N: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry
> N:
> N:   Each manual page should start with a "NAME" section, which lists the
> N:   name and a brief description of the page separated by "\-". These
> N:   sections are parsed by "mandb" and stored in a database for the use of
> N:   "apropos" and "whatis", so they must be in a certain format. This
> N:   manual page apparently uses the wrong format and cannot be parsed by
> N:   "mandb".
> N:
> N:   Refer to the lexgrog(1) manual page, the groff_man(7) manual page, and
> N:   the groff_mdoc(7) manual page for details.
> N:
> N:   Severity: normal, Certainty: certain
> N:
> 
> (Haven't investigated this issue yet.)

Ok. I'll have a look at this.

Martin