Package: docbook-xsl
Version: 1.79.2+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
The ostree package has man pages written in Docbook XML and processed into
man pages via docbook.xsl. The one that has this bug is
man/ostree-admin-config-diff.xml, which contains:
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ostree admin config-diff</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
I would expect this to be truncated into something like
.TH "OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG\-" "1" "" "OSTree" "ostree admin config-diff"
or
.TH "OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG" "1" "" "OSTree" "ostree admin config-diff"
which would render in man(1) like this:
> OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG(1) ostree admin config-diff OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG(1)
> ... [content of man page here] ...
> OSTree OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG(1)
However, it actually it comes out as
.TH "OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG\" "1" "" "OSTree" "ostree admin config-diff"
which has the effect of escaping the second double quote in the line,
resulting in parts of the header having an unintended interpretation:
> OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG() OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG()
> ... [content of man page here] ...
> OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG()
I suspect that what has happened here is that the U+002D HYPHEN/MINUS in
the refentrytitle was escaped as \- before the title was truncated to fit
man page conventions, whereas it should have been truncated first and then
escaped second.
This is similar to #821235, in which single quotes are replaced by
\*(Aq before upper-casing, whereas the correct processing would have
probably been to upper-case first and then replace single quotes with
mixed-case \*(Aq afterwards.
smcv
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Versions of packages docbook-xsl depends on:
ii xml-core 0.18+nmu1
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ii docbook-xml 4.5-12
Versions of packages docbook-xsl suggests:
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ii docbook-xsl-doc-html [docbook-xsl-doc] 1.79.1-1
pn docbook-xsl-saxon <none>
pn fop <none>
pn libsaxon-java <none>
ii libxalan2-java 2.7.2-4
pn libxslthl-java <none>
pn xalan <none>
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