Hello, On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7-1 > of my package "tmux". Here are some comments: - add FAQ to docs - add CHANGES file as upstream changelog - ITP bug will be closed by the first upload not the first packaging attempt So the Closes should come in the topmost changelog entry. - some licenses are BSD 3-clause some are BSD-2 and others are of the type included in the debian/copyright file - include NOTES file in docs - include examples in docs > The package appears to be lintian clean. Not so! :-( There are Lintian errors in your manpage (hyphen used as minus sign). The report is attached. Regards, Kapil. --
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N: Manual page seems to contain a hyphen where a minus sign was intended.
N: '-' chars are interpreted as hyphens (U+2010) by groff, not as minus
N: signs (U+002D). Since options to programs use minus signs (U+002D),
N: this means for example in UTF-8 locales that you cannot cut&paste
N: options, nor search for them easily.
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N: '-' must be escaped ('\-') to be interpreted as minus. If you really
N: intend a hyphen, write it as '\(hy' to emphasise that fact. See
N: groff(7) and especially groff_char(7) for details, and also the thread
N: starting with
N: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg01481
N: .html
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N: If you use some tool that converts your documentation to groff format,
N: it might be possible that this tool converts dashes of any kind to
N: groff hyphens, while the safe way of converting dashes is usually to
N: convert them to '\-'.
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N: Because this error can occur very often we show only the first 10
N: occurrences for each man page and give the number of suppressed
N: occurrences. If you want to see all warnings, run lintian with the
N: -d/--debug option.
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