[Pkg-shadow-devel] 4.0.12 news

[Christian Perrier]

I have updated the whole experimental branch to be compatable with
4.0.12, as Tomasz was king enough to rep-release the tarball for it.

The patches number has been again reduced significantly.

I have removed all patching of man pages files as this is always
broken. We now only patch XML files, so we will need to re-generate
the man pages files from the XML files at build time.

I personnally think that Tomasz should include the build of man pages
from XML files in the build process, so that distro maintainers should
only worry about patching the source XML files and not include the man
pages build process in their own build process.

Besides this, lintian and linda send a lot of warnings about several
man pages:

W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/id/man1/chsh.1.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/ko/man5/passwd.5.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/ru/man5/passwd.5.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man1/chfn.1.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man1/chsh.1.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/groupadd.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/groupdel.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/groupmod.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/useradd.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/userdel.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/usermod.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man1/chfn.1.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man1/chsh.1.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man8/groupadd.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man8/groupdel.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man8/groupmod.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man8/useradd.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man8/userdel.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: passwd; Manual page /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man8/usermod.8.gz failed to run through lexgrog.
W: login; Manual page /usr/share/man/ko/man1/login.1.gz failed to run through lexgrog.

(probably a bug in lexgrog, though)

W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/fr/man1/gpasswd.1.gz /tmp/zmanw4Lpoy:41: warning: can't find numbered character 233
W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/fr/man1/passwd.1.gz /tmp/zman7Hr8JH:41: warning: can't find numbered character 224

.../...

W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/ja/man1/chsh.1.gz /tmp/zmanKd5FXq:45: warning [p 1, 2.0i]: cannot adjust line
W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/ja/man1/gpasswd.1.gz /tmp/zmanQAppMN:33: warning [p 1, 3.0i]: cannot adjust line

.../...

W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/pl/man1/passwd.1.gz /tmp/zmanFkX2dv:133: missing closing delimiter

.../...

W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/pl/man8/grpck.8.gz /tmp/zmangiLKBu:49: warning: numeric expression expected (got a special character)
W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/pl/man8/pwck.8.gz /tmp/zmanGZtOfR:55: warning: numeric expression expected (got a special character)

.../...

W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/cs/man5/passwd.5.gz /tmp/zman0BiBKW:3: can't find hyphenation patterns file `hyphen.cs'
W: passwd: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/cs/man5/shadow.5.gz /tmp/zmanIAWbl8:3: can't find hyphenation patterns file `hyphen.cs'