reassign 1036908 whois 5.5.17 retitle 1036908 whois: Broken use of \c in man page thanks
Hi Helge, Sorry for the late reply. It seems to me that you've reported this bug to the wrong package. mkpasswd(1) where you've found the bug is from the whois package, and not from the expect one. I'm reassigning it. On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 12:09 PM Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: expect > Severity: minor > Tags: upstream > > Dear Debian expect maintainer > > Kindly forward this to upstream, I don't know where to report this > (see also #1036463). > > The usage of \c is in mkpasswd(1) is incorrect. It fails when trying > to use po4a to provide translations of the man pages. Im currently > "patching around this" in manpages-l10n. > > For a full explanation of the problem (the man page is different, but > the problem is the same) see Debian #1036826 and the explanations by > Bjarni, especially in message #25. > > It would be great if you could fix this so that manpages-l10n can > remove our workaround, which slows down our build. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 12.0 > APT prefers testing-security > APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages expect depends on: > ii libc6 2.36-9 > ii libtcl8.6 8.6.13+dfsg-2 > pn tcl-expect <none> > ii tcl8.6 8.6.13+dfsg-2 > > expect recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages expect suggests: > ii tk8.6 8.6.13-2 > > -- > Dr. Helge Kreutzmann [email protected] > Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php > 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred > Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/ -- Sergei Golovan
