Why do you drop the man page fixes patch completely? Lintian suggests that it is still needed: I: yum-utils: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man1/package-cleanup.1.gz unecessary unnecessary N: N: Lintian found a spelling error in the manpage. Lintian has a list of N: common misspellings that it looks for. It does not have a dictionary N: like a spelling checker does. N: N: If the string containing the spelling error is translated with the help N: of gettext (with the help of po4a, for example) or a similar tool, N: please fix the error in the translations as well as the English text to N: avoid making the translations fuzzy. With gettext, for example, this N: means you should also fix the spelling mistake in the corresponding N: msgids in the *.po files. N: N: Severity: minor, Certainty: possible N: N: Check: manpages, Type: binary N: I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/package-cleanup.1.gz:59 N: N: This manual page seems to contain a hyphen where a minus sign was N: intended. By default, "-" chars are interpreted as hyphens (U+2010) by N: groff, not as minus signs (U+002D). Since options to programs use minus N: signs (U+002D), this means for example in UTF-8 locales that you cannot N: cut and paste options, nor search for them easily. The Debian groff N: package currently forces "-" to be interpreted as a minus sign due to N: the number of manual pages with this problem, but this is a N: Debian-specific modification and hopefully eventually can be removed. N: N: "-" must be escaped ("\-") to be interpreted as minus. If you really N: intend a hyphen (normally you don't), write it as "\(hy" to emphasise N: that fact. See groff(7) and especially groff_char(7) for details, and N: also the thread starting with N: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg01481.h N: tml N: N: If you use some tool that converts your documentation to groff format, N: this tag may indicate a bug in the tool. Some tools convert dashes of N: any kind to hyphens. The safe way of converting dashes is to convert N: them to "\-". N: N: Because this error can occur very often, Lintian shows only the first 10 N: occurrences for each man page and give the number of suppressed N: occurrences. If you want to see all warnings, run Lintian with the N: -d/--debug option. N: N: Refer to /usr/share/doc/groff-base/README.Debian and the groff_char(7) N: manual page for details. N: N: Severity: wishlist, Certainty: possible N: N: Check: manpages, Type: binary N: I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/package-cleanup.1.gz:61 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/package-cleanup.1.gz:63 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/package-cleanup.1.gz:66 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repo-rss.1.gz:31 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repodiff.1.gz:6 I: yum-utils: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man1/repodiff.1.gz Ouput Output I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repodiff.1.gz:30 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repodiff.1.gz:32 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repodiff.1.gz:34 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:8 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:21 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:33 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:67 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:73 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:84 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:104 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:107 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:126 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz:130 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz 9 more occurrences not shown I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/reposync.1.gz:37 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/reposync.1.gz:39 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/reposync.1.gz:41 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/reposync.1.gz:43 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/show-changed-rco.1.gz:25 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/show-changed-rco.1.gz:37 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-aliases.1.gz:29 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-aliases.1.gz:31 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-aliases.1.gz:52 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-aliases.1.gz:57 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-aliases.1.gz:64 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-filter-data.1.gz:76 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-filter-data.1.gz:80 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-filter-data.1.gz:84 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-filter-data.1.gz:88 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-filter-data.1.gz:92 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-filter-data.1.gz:96 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-groups-manager.1.gz:80 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-groups-manager.1.gz:82 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-groups-manager.1.gz:84 I: yum-utils: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man1/yum-list-data.1.gz seperate separate I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-verify.1.gz:9 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-verify.1.gz:32 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-verify.1.gz:50 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-verify.1.gz:60 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yum-verify.1.gz:64 I: yum-utils: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man1/yum-verify.1.gz dependancy dependency I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yumdownloader.1.gz:34 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man1/yumdownloader.1.gz:36 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man5/yum-fs-snapshot.conf.5.gz:30 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man5/yum-fs-snapshot.conf.5.gz:31 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/yum-security.8.gz:128 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/yum-security.8.gz:133 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/yum-security.8.gz:138 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/yum-security.8.gz:155 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/yum-security.8.gz:159 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/yum-security.8.gz:163 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/yum-security.8.gz:186 I: yum-utils: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/yum-security.8.gz:190