reassign 480565 perl thanks (BCCed to control@)
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:38:05AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: man-db > Version: 2.5.2-1 > Severity: minor I'm sure I've asked you this before, but once again: please stop filing bugs against man-db about warning messages on individual manual pages. Your default should be to file them against the package providing the manual page. If the maintainer of that package thinks that it is not a problem in the manual page after having investigated it, then the maintainer is welcome to reassign the bug to man-db. > With any pipe or redirection: > $ man perldelta | wc > <standard input>:1010: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name > 1185 8039 58334 > $ man perldelta|: > <standard input>:1010: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name > $ man perldelta > /dev/null > <standard input>:1010: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name The warning is correct. The page uses \*(d\- when it should use \*(d- instead, perhaps as a result of overzealous dash substitution. > But not > $ PAGER=/bin/true man perldelta > $ This is intentional: man-db (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low [...] - Discard stderr from formatting processes when outputting to a pager, to avoid visual corruption from any error messages (closes: #372939). [...] -- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:38:25 +0100 man isn't going to try to guess whether the pager you provided is actually a real pager or just an artifice for the purposes of demonstrating an alleged bug. Regards, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]