Hi Russ, On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 08:47:59 -0800 Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > > Jean-Michel Vourgère <nir...@debian.org> writes: > > >> I'm using pod to generate man files in package rrdtool. > > >> I expected pod2man to generate the corect \: escape sequence, but it > >> did not. > > [...] > > > Unfortunately, \: appears to be a groff extension as far as I can tell. > > It's at least not mentioned in CSTR 54, nor in other older documentation > > I can find for the *roff language. That means this gets entangled in > > the general design constraint that pod2man tries to produce portable > > *roff output that's not specific to groff. > > > I'm not certain this is fully correct because unfortunately it's very > > difficult to search for \: to get more data. > > Many years later, I have incorporated this change in podlators 5.00, just > now released. It will still be a bit before that's incorporated into Perl > and thus into the Debian Perl packages, but I wanted to let you know that > this fix is properly in progress. > > I went ahead and did the conversion to \: unconditionally since it's > documented in the mandoc roff reference as well as groff. That covers > nearly all modern platforms. It may still not work on a few older nroff > implementations like Solaris or AIX, but this case is obscure enough and > enough other things related to Unicode don't work there anyway that I > don't think it should cause any serious problems.
$ aptitude show podlators-perl No candidate version found for podlators-perl Package: podlators-perl State: not a real package Provided by: perl (5.32.1-4+deb11u1), perl (5.32.1-4+deb11u2), perl (5.36.0-7) Does this mean that this bug is fixed in Stable and Testing/Unstable now? Cheers, Diederik
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