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and subject line Re: Bug#739650: oldfind(1): A typographical change in the
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Source: findutils
Version: 4.5.12
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Changes in the file "find/oldfind.1":
\- in(side) a compound word (option) changed to - (hyphen-minus, u002D)
People, that want a special edition for paste-and-cut, can use the
command 'man --ascii', try the command 'info' or the command 'man'
should have an option for emitting the code for 'hyphen-minus' instead
of the (different) code for the minus- or hyphen-glyph. The
copy-and-pasting uses the code, not the names of glyphs.
Problems with UTF-8 and copy-and-paste should be solved on the
metalevel, not in each individual man page.
Spelling rules tell us to use a hyphen in a compound word. Using a
minus is also a fallacy.
Patch:
--- oldfind.1 2013-09-22 15:25:43.000000000 +0000
+++ oldfind.1.new 2014-02-18 21:35:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ but for the moment both implementations
The implementation which is installed as
.B find
on this system is the fts-based implementation, since the
-.B \-\-without\-fts
+.B \-\-without-fts
option was not passed to the
.B configure
script when findutils was built.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.53-rt75-1
Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
-- no debconf information
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Bjarni I. Gislason
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--- Begin Message ---
On 2015-12-24 Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-02-20 Bjarni Ingi Gislason <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> > \- in(side) a compound word (option) changed to - (hyphen-minus, u002D)
[...]
> > Patch:
> [...]
> > -.B \-\-without\-fts
> > +.B \-\-without-fts
> I disagree. The option uses the ASCII 2D character, the manpage should
> show it.
Closing. No point in keeping this open. Please take upstream if you
want to discuss further.
Thanks, cu Andreas
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