retitle 695361 less: backslash handling in option string has changed in less-456, breaking man severity 695361 serious thanks
The problem is due to a change in the backslash handling in less-456, according to upstream (Mark Nudelman), who mentions the man page: A dollar sign or backslash may be included literally in an option string by preceding it with a backslash. So, now two backslashes are needed, one for the option string escaping (as said above) and one for prompt string escaping (just like before). As a consequence, the new less package should: 1. announce the incompatibility change in NEWS (it has only been done in the changelog, without being explicit on the incompatibility: "Allow backslash escaping of metacharacters in LESS environment variable." - Also note that arguments are also affected, not just the LESS environment variable, as shown in the bug report); 2. break other packages that depend on the old behavior, at least man-db 2.6.3-2 and previous versions. I'm going to report another bug to get this fixed in man-db. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
