Bug#276547: texinfo: @samp{} text should change - to \- in man pages

["Andrew Moise" <chops@demiurgestudios.com>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> Would you be so kind to check if this is still the case for the
> texinfo from unstable?

  Hm.  texinfo in unstable seems to still emit '-n' instead of '\-n'
in the CVS man page, but man seems to have finally switched to the
much saner behavior of rendering '-n' as '-n' instead of playing silly
games with Unicode characters.  I would say that this is rendered
not-a-bug by the change in man's behavior.
  Now if only I could get back the few days of my life I spent filing
bugs against however-many man pages after the 'man' maintainer told me
that the ridiculous unicodization of '-n' wasn't going to change and
the man pages would have to be fixed :-/.
  Thanks for the followup!