On 02/25/2010 01:37 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
Hello Mike,

On Friday 26 Feb 2010 00:24:29 Mike Christie wrote:
On 02/25/2010 01:55 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf<r...@researchut.com>

Thanks for the patches. Could you tell me what the "\" being added is
for or supposed to do?


lintian is a pretty helpful tool.


I: open-iscsi: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
usr/share/man/man8/iscsi_discovery.8.gz:16
N:
N:    This manual page seems to contain a hyphen where a minus sign was
N:    intended. By default, "-" chars are interpreted as hyphens (U+2010) by
N:    groff, not as minus signs (U+002D). Since options to programs use minus
N:    signs (U+002D), this means for example in UTF-8 locales that you cannot
N:    cut and paste options, nor search for them easily. The Debian groff
N:    package currently forces "-" to be interpreted as a minus sign due to
N:    the number of manual pages with this problem, but this is a
N:    Debian-specific modification and hopefully eventually can be removed.
N:
N:    "-" must be escaped ("\-") to be interpreted as minus. If you really
N:    intend a hyphen (normally you don't), write it as "\(hy" to emphasise
N:    that fact. See groff(7) and especially groff_char(7) for details, and
N:    also the thread starting with
N:    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg01481.h
N:    tml
N:
N:    If you use some tool that converts your documentation to groff format,
N:    this tag may indicate a bug in the tool. Some tools convert dashes of
N:    any kind to hyphens. The safe way of converting dashes is to convert
N:    them to "\-".
N:
N:    Because this error can occur very often, Lintian shows only the first 10
N:    occurrences for each man page and give the number of suppressed
N:    occurrences. If you want to see all warnings, run Lintian with the
N:    -d/--debug option.
N:
N:    Refer to the groff_char(7) manual page for details.
N:
N:    Severity: wishlist, Certainty: possible
N:
I: open-iscsi: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
usr/share/man/man8/iscsi_discovery.8.gz:18
I: open-iscsi: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
usr/share/man/man8/iscsi_discovery.8.gz:38
I: open-iscsi: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/iscsiadm.8.gz:5
I: open-iscsi: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/iscsiadm.8.gz:6



Ah thanks. Patch looks ok. Both patches are merged and should how up on kernel.org in a bit.

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