Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: normal
Dear Lintian maintainers,
I have just checked at manual pages that triggers
hyphen-used-as-minus-sign informational reports, like samtools(1) for
instance, and I did not experience any problem in searching for the
minus sign. I wonder if hyphen-used-as-minus-sign is not massively
triggering false positives, in the sense that not backslashing minus
signs do not create problems for the user.
I have seen problems for long options where two minus signs were
converted in en hyphens, so the test still has some uses, but
shouldn't be made much more conservative?
Have a nice day,
-- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.51.20090723-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.23 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-per 0.33-1 Automated accessor generator
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.1-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager
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