Control: tags -1 pending On 2015-05-16 03:21, Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] > Pedantic would be the appropriate spot for this. However.... > >> Jakub Wilk wrote: >>> Yeah, these days even upstream groff renders both - and \- as >>> HYPHEN-MINUS. > >> Then again, this sounds as if it's indeed obsolete. Actually I can >> imagine easily the semantic difference, but I've never noticed any >> different rendering. But then again I'd expect no difference with any >> rendering in text-mode and I never read man-pages in graphical tools. > > ...basically, historically, there was a difference between - and \-. But > I think absolutely everyone has given up on this, including groff > upstream, and at this point we're just poking random upstreams about > something that they don't care about and don't have any real defensible > reason to care about. Or carrying really tedious and hard-to-maintain > diffs. > > I think we should just drop it. > > However, copying Colin, as I think he should weigh in on this as man-db > maintainer and groff maintainer. >
Hi, Given Colin did not seem to have any remarks to this, I have decided to commit the change. Thanks, ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
