Your message dated Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:45:38 -0300 with message-id <ca+azebdetzvzhdmvtwjwsrr6op5ojy98ejobxkewszbafmd...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line 'man2html | html2text' removes space separating options and parameters. has caused the Debian Bug report #451189, regarding 'man2html | html2text' removes space separating options and parameters. to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: html2text Version: 1.3.2a-3 Severity: normal A line from the 'bash' manual: % man bash | egrep -n '\-z.*string' 2025: -z string Accurately converted to HTML, then to text, using 'lynx': % man2html /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | lynx -stdin -dump -nolist -dont_wrap_pre | egrep -n '\-z.*string' 2103: -z string But 'html2text' deletes a necessary space: % man2html /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | html2text -ascii -nobs | egrep -n '\-z.*string' 1700: -zstring Of course 'bash' has no "-zstring" option. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages html2text depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 html2text recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, I'm closing this bug due to lack of response. If you are still experiencing this issue, feel free to reopen it or file a new bug report with updated information. Best regards, Bruno Naibert
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