Bug#785353: lintian: RfC: retiring hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:
> > Given no (strong) objections /and/ a reasonable plan for improving the
> > situation, I intend to retire this tag in lintian/2.5.32.
> 
> Could we downgrade to pedantic ?

I'd also rather downgrade than drop it. Maybe even tag it experimental.

Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Yeah, these days even upstream groff renders both - and \- as
> HYPHEN-MINUS.

Then again, this sounds as if it's indeed obsolete. Actually I can
imagine easily the semantic difference, but I've never noticed any
different rendering. But then again I'd expect no difference with any
rendering in text-mode and I never read man-pages in graphical tools.

> > Given no (strong) objections /and/ a reasonable plan for improving
> > the situation, I intend to retire this tag in lintian/2.5.32.

So I'm not in favour of removing it, but have no strong objections
against it either.

		Regards, Axel
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