Re: RFS: nemesis (updated package)
2008/7/3 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:
> Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> writes:
>
>> Just for the record, unfortunately, sometimes patching upstream's manual
>> pages is the only correct solution. There are cases when the "-"
>> character appears in a manual page in both roles - as "a minus sign" and
>> as a "real" hyphen. For example, look at my proposed changes to the
>> xvkbd package in bug #484490 - these include a patch to the manual page
>> that changes "-" to "\-" in *some* cases, but not always; there are uses
>> like "UNIX-like" and "upper-case" when the hyphen is indeed a hyphen.
>> Thus, an automated "escape all hyphens" is not always a correct
>> solution, though it is usually the easiest :)
>
> Usually upstream is fairly happy to take these sorts of patches, though.
I agree
But I don't know yet how to fix those lintian warnings :/
Regards
>
>> Somewhat off-topic, but, well, that's one of the less important reasons
>> why I always write mdoc manual pages :)
>
> POD is a very simple language for writing man pages and takes care of this
> for you too. :)
>
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