reassign 259996 xfree86
retitle 259996 xfree86: Imake's CppRawFileTarget() corrupts manpages, including 
xterm's
tag 259996 + upstream
severity 259996 minor
thanks

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:20:32PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 01:33:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 11:18:12AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:40:08PM +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:00:13PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> > > > > Package: xterm
> > > > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
> > > > > Severity: normal
> > > > > 
> > > > > The keybinding tables in the xterm manpage don't format correctly 
> > > > > here.
> > > > > It seems like the newline characters aren't interpreted by groff.
> > [...]
> > > I made a fix for this in XFree86 CVS (affects more than xterm).
> The reference is:
> 
> http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/config/cf/Imake.rules
> 
> Revision 3.138 / (view) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Sun Jul 18 14:10:26 
> 2004 UTC (9 days, 11 hours ago) by dickey 
> Branch: MAIN 
> CVS Tags: xf-4_4_99_10, HEAD 
> Changes since 3.137: +2 -2 lines 
> Diff to previous 3.137 
> 
>  147. Modify CppRawFileTarget() to transform trailing backslashes in the input
>       manpages so the backslash is followed by a blank, defeating the C
>       preprocessor's tendency to remove the following newline (Thomas Dickey,
>       Debian #259996).
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