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Bug#1073267: RFS: gpp/2.28-2 [ITA] -- general-purpose preprocessor with customizable syntax



On Thu, 2024-06-20 at 18:32 -0300, Leandro Cunha wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 6:03 PM Phil Wyett <philip.wyett@kathenas.org> wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> >
> > Hi Leandro,
> >
> > Thanks for taking time to create this package and your contribution to Debian.
> >
> > Review...
> >
> > 1. Build: OK
> >
> > 2. Lintian: INFORMATION
> >
> > I: gpp: acute-accent-in-manual-page [usr/share/man/man1/gpp.1.gz:1106]
> > N:
> > N:   This manual page uses the \' groff sequence. Usually, the intent is to
> > N:   generate an apostrophe, but that sequence actually renders as an acute
> > N:   accent.
> > N:
> > N:   For an apostrophe or a single closing quote, use plain '. For single
> > N:   opening quote, i.e. a straight downward line ' like the one used in shell
> > N:   commands, use '\(aq'.
> > N:
> > N:   In case this tag was emitted for the second half of a '\\' sequence, this
> > N:   is indeed no acute accent, but still wrong: A literal backslash should be
> > N:   written \e in the groff format, i.e. a '\\' sequence needs to be changed
> > N:   to '\e' which also won't trigger this tag.
> > N:
> > N:   Please refer to Bug#554897, Bug#507673, and Bug#966803 for details

If this really bothers you, feel free to report it upstream. But don't flood the bug report.

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