Comment 4 for bug 19987

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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 18:09:55 +0200
From: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: docbook2man uses hyphens instead of minus signs

Package: docbook-utils
Version: 0.6.13-2
Severity: important

See subject. In most cases and ALWAYS in option lists, the manpages are
meant to use minus signs ('\-' in groff syntax). But docbook2man prints
hyphens instead ('-'). This is very nasty, especially in Unicode
environments (copy&paste inpossible).

The severity is high because docbook2man is THE REASON for many broken
manpages in Debian.

MfG,
Eduard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.23-pre2 #1 Mi Sep 3 16:09:39 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

Versions of packages docbook-utils depends on:
ii docbook-dsssl 1.78-4 modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets,
ii jadetex 3.13-1 generator of printable output from
ii lynx 2.8.4.1b-5 Text-mode WWW Browser
ii perl 5.8.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sgmlspl 1.03ii-25 SGMLS-based example Perl script fo
ii sp 1.3.4-1.2.1-35 James Clark's SGML parsing tools

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