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-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/lint.scm10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/lint.scm b/guix/scripts/lint.scm
index b0427f75f4..0adb3bf179 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/lint.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/lint.scm
@@ -146,11 +146,11 @@ monad."
   (define (check-texinfo-markup description)
     "Check that DESCRIPTION can be parsed as a Texinfo fragment.  If the
 markup is valid return a plain-text version of DESCRIPTION, otherwise #f."
-    (catch 'parser-error
-      (lambda () (texi->plain-text description))
-      (lambda (keys . args)
-        (emit-warning package (_ "Texinfo markup in description is invalid"))
-        #f)))
+    (unless (false-if-exception (texi->plain-text description))
+      (emit-warning package
+                    (_ "Texinfo markup in description is invalid")
+                    'description)
+      #f))
 
   (define (check-proper-start description)
     (unless (or (properly-starts-sentence? description)