reassign 480565 perl
thanks
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On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:38:05AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Package: man-db
> Version: 2.5.2-1
> Severity: minor
I'm sure I've asked you this before, but once again: please stop filing
bugs against man-db about warning messages on individual manual pages.
Your default should be to file them against the package providing the
manual page. If the maintainer of that package thinks that it is not a
problem in the manual page after having investigated it, then the
maintainer is welcome to reassign the bug to man-db.
> With any pipe or redirection:
> $ man perldelta | wc
> <standard input>:1010: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name
> 1185 8039 58334
> $ man perldelta|:
> <standard input>:1010: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name
> $ man perldelta > /dev/null
> <standard input>:1010: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name
The warning is correct. The page uses \*(d\- when it should use \*(d-
instead, perhaps as a result of overzealous dash substitution.
> But not
> $ PAGER=/bin/true man perldelta
> $
This is intentional:
man-db (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
- Discard stderr from formatting processes when outputting to a pager,
to avoid visual corruption from any error messages (closes: #372939).
[...]
-- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:38:25 +0100
man isn't going to try to guess whether the pager you provided is
actually a real pager or just an artifice for the purposes of
demonstrating an alleged bug.
Regards,
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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