lintian: W: libfontconfig-doc: bad-whatis-entry

Bug #2030303 reported by themusicgod1
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

debuild -us -uc -b now results in a complete build but with one warning at the end:

....
W: libfontconfig-doc: bad-whatis-entry [usr/share/man/man3/FcPatternIterNext.3.gz]
Finished running lintian.

fontconfig:
  Installed: 2.14.1-3ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2.14.1-3ubuntu3
ubuntu: 23.04 lunar

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: fontconfig 2.14.1-3ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 6.3.0-gnulibre x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Sun Aug 6 03:49:06 2023
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=screen.xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: fontconfig
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-02-27 (159 days ago)

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themusicgod1 (themusicgod1) wrote :
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) wrote :

Thanks for your report.

Yes, the short description is missing on that man page, and you may want to submit an upstream issue:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/fontconfig/-/issues

Changed in fontconfig (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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