2008/7/3 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just for the record, unfortunately, sometimes patching upstream's manual >> pages is the only correct solution. There are cases when the "-" >> character appears in a manual page in both roles - as "a minus sign" and >> as a "real" hyphen. For example, look at my proposed changes to the >> xvkbd package in bug #484490 - these include a patch to the manual page >> that changes "-" to "\-" in *some* cases, but not always; there are uses >> like "UNIX-like" and "upper-case" when the hyphen is indeed a hyphen. >> Thus, an automated "escape all hyphens" is not always a correct >> solution, though it is usually the easiest :) > > Usually upstream is fairly happy to take these sorts of patches, though.
I agree But I don't know yet how to fix those lintian warnings :/ Regards > >> Somewhat off-topic, but, well, that's one of the less important reasons >> why I always write mdoc manual pages :) > > POD is a very simple language for writing man pages and takes care of this > for you too. :) > > -- > Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- William Vera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: 1024D/F5CC22A4 Fingerprint: 3E73 FA1F 5C57 6005 0439 4D75 1FD2 BF96 F5CC 22A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
