Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du samedi 21 juin 2008, vers 14:08,
> "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait :
>
>>> Moreover, you might want to fix the manpage for the "hyphen used as
>>> minus sign" lintian warning.
>> Probably, lintian is right. But, upstream ships man page gzipped... So,
>> patching man page
>> will require unpack it, make several sed expressions (or duplicate right man
>> in debian/
>> dir), say dh_installman explicitly use patched man page instead of original
>> one... IMHO,
>> this minor warning doesn't cost these manipulations... Though, If you claim
>> that this is a
>> significant, I'll fix it (may be, you know less expensive way to patch
>> it?).
>
> You can use some shell magic:
> gunzip blah.1.gz
> sed -i 's/\B-/\\-/g' blah.1
> [...]
> dh_installman blah.1
>
> You should of course check that sed is really doing its job.
Wouldn't it be better to generate an uncompressed manpage as part of the
appropriate debian/rules rule, and then use a standard debian/patches
utility (e.g. quilt) to escape only those hyphens that need it?
Something like (completely untested):
## Upstream ships compressed files within their tarball; boy are
## they silly.
clean::
rm -f foo.1
build:: foo.1
foo.1:: foo.1.gz
gunzip -c $< >$@
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