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and subject line Bug#706916: fixed in man-db 2.6.3-4
has caused the Debian Bug report #706916,
regarding man-db: Please revert workaround for less 456
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Package: less
Version: 456-1
Severity: normal
The command
echo | less '-mPmfoo\.bar'
gives the prompt "foobar" instead of "foo.bar". To get the period, the
backslash needs to be doubled, but this is not what the less man page
says:
Any characters other than the special ones (question mark, colon,
period, percent, and backslash) become literally part of the prompt.
Any of the special characters may be included in the prompt literally
by preceding it with a backslash.
As there is no reason to double the backslash, I suppose that it is a
bug in the program, not in the documentation.
Note that this bug affects "man". For instance, "man apt.conf" gives
the following prompt:
Manual page aptconf(5) line 1 (press h for help or q to quit)
where the period is missing.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages less depends on:
ii debianutils 4.3.4
ii libc6 2.13-37
ii libtinfo5 5.9-10
less recommends no packages.
less suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: man-db
Source-Version: 2.6.3-4
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
man-db, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <[email protected]> (supplier of updated man-db package)
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Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 09:45:40 +0100
Source: man-db
Binary: man-db
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.6.3-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Description:
man-db - on-line manual pager
Closes: 706916
Changes:
man-db (2.6.3-4) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Make postinst output clearer about whether the database is being rebuilt
(e.g. due to man-db/auto-update=false).
* Drop handling of option string escaping in less 456, since the
incompatible change has been reverted upstream (thanks, Geoffrey Thomas;
closes: #706916). I've chosen to drop the Breaks entirely as it's a bit
too heavyweight for a relatively minor display bug.
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