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Bug#1051357: lintian: RfC: resurrect hyphen-used-as-minus-sign



Package: lintian
Version: 2.116.3
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: cjwatson@debian.org, sthibault@debian.org

Background: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785353

Samuel Thibault and Colin Watson have suggested resurrecting this
lintian tag now that groff 1.23.0 handles the underlying issue a bit
differently.  (Mainly, the new groff makes it easier for sites to opt-in
and -out of this behavior by putting things in man.local and mdoc.local
instead of in the macro packages themselves, which are not conffiles.)

Debian's groff package is presently _not_ remapping input hyphens to
U+002D, to try and attract package maintainer attention and shake these
issues out, but it is also carrying a serious-severity ticket to prevent
itself from shipping that way in the next stable release.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1041731#57 .

Regards,
Branden

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