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bug #48525: use minus sign instead of hyphen in manpages

Submitter:  Mattia Rizzolo <mattia>
Submitted:  Fri 15 Jul 2016 05:02:27 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  None
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Thu 07 Sep 2017 06:05:29 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks Mattia.

Ben Asselstine <benasselstine>
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Fri 15 Jul 2016 05:02:27 PM UTC, original submission:  

groff is a weird beast.
Even if now we don't check this anymore in Debian (since some months) and most manpage viewers render hyphens and minus sign with the same glyph (a minus sign), it's ideally more correct this way.

patch attached.

Mattia Rizzolo <mattia>

 

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    2017-09-07 benasselstine Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2016-07-15 mattia Attached File- Added hyphen-used-as-minus-sign.patch, #37900

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