Bug#732237: info: Output from a man page (cat version) contains still a part of an escape sequence

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

tags 732237 moreinfo unreproducible
severity 732237 minor
thanks

Hi

>   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.

I cannot reproduce it in any way. I thought it might be the caching of
man pages, but even after reconfiguring man-db to use caching, running
a few man pages as root and user, I still don't see any change in the
output of info.

Could it be that you have some left-overs hanging around?

Norbert

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