Comment 11 for bug 19987

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:50:15 +0100
From: Colin Watson <email address hidden>
To: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: WTF?

severity 208967 normal
thanks

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:31:25PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> severity 208967 grave
> thanks
>
> Christian, what about communicating with the bug reporters instead of
> silently downgrading the bugs?
>
> In fact this problems fscks the groff conversion in every Debian package
> using Docbook sgml (from dh_make examples). How do your solution plans
> look like? Do you have any? Do you need help?

Nowadays, as of five months before you sent this mail, Debian groff
renders both - and \- using the same ASCII character even when using the
utf8 device, so speaking as the groff maintainer I can see no
justification for this bug to be grave. While the distinction has some
typographical importance (docbook2man's current output will occasionally
result in incorrect line breaks) and is therefore still a bug, it is
otherwise visible only in troff output such as PostScript.

groff (1.18.1.1-7) unstable; urgency=low

  * Too many fonts are missing the Unicode HYPHEN character, so I give up.
    Render "-" as HYPHEN-MINUS (ASCII 0x2D) by default. (Of course, manual
    pages using "-" when they should be using "\-" should still be fixed.)

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:57:51 +0000

Cheers,

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Colin Watson [<email address hidden>]