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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-14 13:42:30 +0000
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+Tag: python-traceback-in-manpage
+Severity: error
+Check: documentation/manual
+Explanation: The specified manual page contains a Python traceback.
+ .
+ This was probably caused by a call to <code>help2man</code> failing to
+ correctly execute, likely due to an missing or incorrect
+ <code>PYTHONPATH</code> environment variable.
+ .
+ Note that calls to generate manpages from binaries may succeed if the package
+ being built is already installed in the build environment as might locate
+ potentially old copy of the program under <code>/usr/lib/python3</code>. This
+ is fairly common on maintainers' machines, for example. However, in
+ environments where the package is not installed (such as most buildds),
+ generating the manpage may fail and inject a traceback into the manual page.