Patch #7640
[Patch] Use dashes, not hyphens in manpage
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 2015-05-01 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 100% | |
| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | - |
Description
In the manpage, plain - characters are used, which are rendered as (non-ASCII) hyphens by groff. This is ok for e.g. "read-only", but for e.g. "--grf" dashes are needed to make copy-pasting work.
I've attached a patch which fixes this. Technically, it seems that inside the .Fl macro, this is not necessary, but it doesn't hurt either (and is good for consistency).
This fixes a lintian warning in Debian: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.html
fix-manpage-dashes.patch 
(3.56 KB)
Associated revisions
Fix #7640: Use dashes, not hyphens in manpage (matthijs)
History
#1 Updated by planetmaker about 4 years ago
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Status changed from New to Closed
Applied in changeset e60e3b517945.