Bug#729593: #729593 possibly incorrect lintian check hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
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On 04/01/14 01:16, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
> This is really pedantic. :)
we're fairly pedantic around here ;)
> There is nothing wrong with this check. Lintian uses man output to
> check for hyphens. I had reproducible case where I could see
> hyphens outside of lintian and escaping exactly one minus after
> space was enough to see the problem gone even if second minus was
> left un-escaped. There were never dash following minus in man pages
> even if only first minus after space was escaped.
>
> Although documentation can always be improved I doubt if there will
> be any reason to mention that "this check is correct". We assume
> all checks to be correct -- otherwise we report bugs. :)
if only a subset of dashes/minus signs has to be escaped, this will
have to be mentioned in groff manpages, i hope. will try to
investigate this further.
> I recommend to close this "bug" right away. I didn't do it myself
> merely to leave room for second opinion. Thanks.
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Rich
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