Bug#732237: info: Output from a man page (cat version) contains still a part of an escape sequence
Package: info
Version: 5.2.0.dfsg.1-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The output of "info bash" contains text of the type '<number>m',
which is the last part of an escape sequence. This happens when the
input file is taken from the directory /var/cache/man/cat?/, as it then
contains escape sequences.
Example (multiple empy lines reduced to one):
File: *manpages*, Node: bash, Up: (dir)
BASH(1) General Commands Manual BASH(1)
1mNAME0m
bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
1mSYNOPSIS0m
1mbash 22m[options] [file]
1mCOPYRIGHT0m
Bash is Copyright (C) 1989-2011 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
1mDESCRIPTION0m
1mBash 22mis an 1msh22m-compatible command language interpreter that executes
commands read from the standard input or from a file. 1mBash 22malso incor-
porates useful features from the 4mKorn24m and 4mC24m shells (1mksh 22mand 1mcsh22m).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.46-1-rt67-1
Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages info depends on:
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10
ii libc6 2.17-97
ii libtinfo5 5.9-10
info recommends no packages.
Versions of packages info suggests:
pn texinfo-doc-nonfree <none>
-- no debconf information
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Bjarni I. Gislason
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