Bug #95213 manpage issues found by RPMLint
Submitted: 1 May 2019 14:06 Modified: 1 May 2019 16:02
Reporter: Michal Schorm Email Updates:
Status: Verified Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Packaging Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:8.0.16 OS:Fedora
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[1 May 2019 14:06] Michal Schorm
Description:
Running RPMLint on packages produced by the Fedora Build System.

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rpmlint FAILED for community-mysql-8.0.16-1.fc30 (x86_64, noarch, src):
 
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2595: can't delimit name with a newline
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2605: cannot use newline as a starting delimiter
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2615: cannot use newline as a starting delimiter
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2620: cannot use newline as a starting delimiter
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2625: a newline character is not allowed in an escape name
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2630: a newline character is not allowed in an escape name
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2635: a newline character is not allowed in an escape name
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2635: expecting an argument to escape \O
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2665: cannot use newline as a starting delimiter
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2670: cannot use newline as a starting delimiter
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2693: cannot use newline as a starting delimiter
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysql.1.gz 2703: a newline character is not allowed in an escape name

community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz 2041: warning: macro `'' not defined
community-mysql.x86_64: W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz 2047: warning: macro `NULL'' not defined

How to repeat:
Run RPMLint in Fedora on the produced RPM
[1 May 2019 16:02] Terje Røsten
Thanks for your report!

I think manual pages is generated from some xml format, but let's see what can be done to fix this.