Marking as confirmed, no fix for Debian yet, so I assume it is still not fixed in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and higher. Thank you very much for reporting this bug.
** Changed in: docbook-utils (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to docbook-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/19987 Title: docbook2man uses hyphens instead of minus signs Status in “docbook-utils” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “docbook-utils” package in Debian: New Bug description: Automatically imported from Debian bug report #208967 http://bugs.debian.org/208967 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/docbook-utils/+bug/19987/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp