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and subject line Bug#1050875: fixed in feh 3.11.2-2
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regarding feh: Escape hyphens in manpage
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Package: feh
Version: 3.10-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch upstream
feh.1, like many manpages, fails to escape the `-` character in option
descriptions. In modern groff, this causes each one to be rendered as
U+2010 "HYPHEN" instead of the ASCII character (U+002D "HYPHEN-MINUS").
The net effect:
- Certain old fonts (I still use the classic X11 'fixed' for my xterms)
don't have the U+2010 glyph
- Searching in "less" (by typing, e.g., "/--auto <Ret>" does not work.
Fortunately the manpage formats every instance of every option with the
"Cm" macro, so this is easy to fix without also hitting all the
legitimate English-language hyphens that are not options (as in the
phrase "English-language"). Here is a simple patch.
Thanks,
Peter
--- feh-3.10/man/Makefile~ 2023-04-06 09:19:59.000000000 -0500
+++ feh-3.10/man/Makefile 2023-08-30 11:35:13.557736015 -0500
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
-e 's/\$$MAN_INOTIFY\$$/${MAN_INOTIFY}/' \
-e 's/\$$MAN_MAGIC\$$/${MAN_MAGIC}/' \
-e 's/\$$MAN_XINERAMA\$$/${MAN_XINERAMA}/' \
+ -e '/^\(\.Cm\|\.[A-Z][a-z].* Cm\)/{ s/ -\([^ ]\)/ \\-\1/g; s/\(\\-[^
\-]*\)-/\1\\-/g; s/\(\\-[^ \-]*\)-/\1\\-/g }' \
< ${@:.1=.pre} > $@
clean:
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: feh
Source-Version: 3.11.2-2
Done: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
feh, 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.
Andreas Tille <[email protected]> (supplier of updated feh package)
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Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:53:21 +0100
Source: feh
Architecture: source
Version: 3.11.2-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian PhotoTools Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>
Closes: 1049618 1050875 1093684
Changes:
feh (3.11.2-2) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Andreas Tille ]
* Use upstream desktop file
Closes: #1093684
* Cleanup after testing
Closes: #1049618
* debian/README.source: deleted
.
[ Peter Samuelson ]
* Escape hyphens in manpage
Closes: #1050875
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