Package: txt2man
Version: 1.5.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
txt2man's own manpage currently looks like this (excerpted)
==
\fB-h The option -h displays help.
==
This is because the Debian patch to backslash-escape dashes is only applying
to the first dash on a line, and does not extend the shell-option matching
code to recognise the escaped-dash's backslash as belonging to the dash.
The below patch fixes this:
(It will fuzz with the patch I just sent to #221268. They both work together
though,
and the parts that overlap are the same change to different lines)
--- /usr/bin/txt2man 2006-10-27 17:09:18.000000000 +1000
+++ txt2man 2007-03-28 00:57:27.000000000 +1000
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
sub(/\.\.\./, "\\.\\.\\.")
# remove spaces in empty lines
sub(/^ +$/,"")
- sub(/-/,"\\-") # backslash-escape hyphens
+ gsub(/-/,"\\-") # backslash-escape hyphens
}
/^[[:upper:][:space:]]+$/ {
# Section header
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@
for (i in subwords)
gsub(i, subwords[i])
# shell options
- gsub(/\B\-+\w+(\-\w+)*/, "\\fB&\\fP")
+ gsub(/\B\\-+\w+(\-\w+)*/, "\\fB&\\fP")
# unprotect dots inside words
gsub(/_dOt_/, ".")
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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