I never received an answer from the docbook-to-man maintainers, so I switched to docbook-utils which works correctly but I found out is uninstallable on four architectures. What should I do? Maybe the jadetex dependency should be downgraded to Recommends since it's only needed for some output formats anyway? https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=module-init-tools On Mar 04, md wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from md ----- > > To: pbenner@uni-osnabrueck.de > Cc: debian-xml-sgml-pkgs@lists.alioth.debian.org > Subject: Escape backslashes in the man pages > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) > > Please advise. What should I use to build this document? > > <!doctype refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.1//EN" [ > <!ENTITY debian "<productname>Debian GNU/Linux</productname>"> > <!ENTITY docbook "<productname>DocBook</productname>"> > <!ENTITY sgml "<abbrev>SGML</abbrev>"> > ]> > > ----- Forwarded message from Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> ----- > > From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> > To: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> > Cc: mit-devel@lists.printk.net > Subject: Re: [Mit-devel] Escape backslashes in the man pages > User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20081227) > > Marco d'Itri napsal(a): > > Escape backslashes in the man pages. > > > > --- a/doc/depmod.conf.sgml > > +++ b/doc/depmod.conf.sgml > > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ > > <para> > > The format of <filename>depmod.conf</filename> and files under <filename>depmod.d</filename> is simple: one > > command per line, with blank lines and lines starting with # > > - ignored (useful for adding comments). A \ at the end of a line > > + ignored (useful for adding comments). A \\ at the end of a line > > Which conversion tool do you use to generate the manpages? docbook2man > from docbook-utils correctly escapes the backslashes and applying your > patch results in '\\\\' in the roff source. > > Michal > > > _______________________________________________ > Mit-devel mailing list > Mit-devel@dmesg2.printk.net > http://dmesg2.printk.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mit-devel > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > ciao, > Marco > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > ciao, > Marco -- ciao, Marco
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