Bug#664471: false positive for hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.6
Severity: minor
Hi,
It seems to me that lintian falsely reports hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
for the following line in the file:
Use \f[C]--\ --help\f[] for a list.
If the space ('\ ') is removed, the warning is no longer
generated. I'm not familiar with the groff source language, but at
least viewing the page through man shows regular minus signs, and not
dashes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.5-ruru0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-6
ii bzip2 1.0.6-1
ii diffstat 1.55-2
ii file 5.11-1
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.25+b1
ii libc-bin 2.13-27
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1.2
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.187-2
ii libipc-run-perl 0.91-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.59-1
ii locales 2.13-27
ii man-db 2.6.1-1
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-9
ii unzip 6.0-5
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.2
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-1+b1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2
ii man-db 2.6.1-1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3
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