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usertags 519162 target-2.5.5
tags 519162 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:33:24PM -0400, Will Day wrote:
> In man(1), the example for the "-r" prompt is missing an escape for the
> backslash for the last space, ie:
>
> .B byte\e\ %bB?s/%s..?\e\ (END):?pB\ %pB\e\e%..
>
> should be:
>
> .B byte\e\ %bB?s/%s..?\e\ (END):?pB\e\ %pB\e\e%..
>
> Trying to use the example (eg setting $MANOPT in the environment), causes
> man to complain:
>
> man: Too many arguments
> Try `man --help' or `man --usage' for more information.
>
> In Debian Etch, apparently man-db used getopt for argument parsing and did
> not complain about this. In Debian Lenny, apparently man-db uses gnulib
> argp now, and it gives the above error. (Thus, this bug was experienced as
> an etch->lenny upgrade problem, until I tracked it to the $MANOPT in my
> environment.) The man(1) page has the typo in both etch and lenny.
Thanks, I've applied your patch upstream.
Tue Mar 10 23:46:08 GMT 2009 Will Day <wd+debianb...@hpgx.net>
* man/man1/man.man1 (Controlling formatted output): Fix missing
backslash in -r default (Debian bug #519162).
* man/po4a/po/man-db-manpages.pot, man/po4a/po/*.po: Update.
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