Bug#464960: Fails to show escaped periods found at the beginning of a line

Am Sonntag, den 10.02.2008, 09:28 + schrieb Colin Watson: reassign 464960 groff-base [..] On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:46:08AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Package: man-db [..] Firstly, this should be on groff-base rather than man-db, but in any case: The code to reproduce it is rather

Bug#464960: Fails to show escaped periods found at the beginning of a line

Package: man-db Version: 2.5.1-2 Severity: normal -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The code to reproduce it is rather simple. I found this one in manpage: !--begin-index-- \.\.\. !--end-index-- However, the output from man misses the three periods. I attach a sample file to this