Debian Bug report logs - #156154
manpages: latin1(7) uses unrenderable soft hyphen character

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: manpages: latin1(7) uses unrenderable soft hyphen character

Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:08:36 +0100

Package: manpages
Version: 1.48-2
Severity: normal

This is from a conversation with the upstream maintainer of groff:

=====

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > PS: latin1.7 should be fixed for the soft hyphen character: groff no
> > >     longer returns a printable representation (which makes no sense
> > >     typographically) but translates it to `\%'.
> > 
> > Is there any way latin1.7 could get a printable representation of that
> > character?
> 
> Intentionally not.  Just place a hyphen -- it should look the same.

=====

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]

Message #10 received at 156154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

Cc: 156154@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: latin1(7) uses unrenderable soft hyphen character

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:08:49 +0200

Please send a patch against this.
http://cvs.infodrom.org/manpages/man7/iso-8859-1.7?cvsroot=debian

Regards,

	Joey

-- 
Never trust an operating system you don't have source for!

Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Message #19 received at 156154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>

To: 156154@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

Subject: Patch

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 15:41:01 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

tag 156154 - help + patch
thanks

Here is the patch to fix this bug.

This bug appears with 3.27-1.

-- 
Eugen Dedu
http://eugen.dedu.free.fr

[156154.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #28 received at 156154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>

To: 156154@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Any news?

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:56:23 +0100

The patch is pretty simple.

-- 
Eugen

Message #33 received at 156154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>

To: 156154@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Any news?

Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:22:44 +0200

The patch is pretty simple.

-- 
Eugen

Message #38 received at 156154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

To: Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>, 156154@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#156154: Patch

Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:11:47 +1200

tags 156154 fixed-upstream
thanks

Fixed in upstream man-pages-3.40

Cheers,

Michael

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Eugen Dedu
<Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr> wrote:
> tag 156154 - help + patch
> thanks
>
> Here is the patch to fix this bug.
>
> This bug appears with 3.27-1.
>
> --
> Eugen Dedu
> http://eugen.dedu.free.fr



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/

Message #47 received at 156154-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>

To: 156154-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#156154: fixed in manpages 3.40-0.1

Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 10:48:16 +0000

Source: manpages
Source-Version: 3.40-0.1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

manpages-dev_3.40-0.1_all.deb
  to main/m/manpages/manpages-dev_3.40-0.1_all.deb
manpages_3.40-0.1.diff.gz
  to main/m/manpages/manpages_3.40-0.1.diff.gz
manpages_3.40-0.1.dsc
  to main/m/manpages/manpages_3.40-0.1.dsc
manpages_3.40-0.1_all.deb
  to main/m/manpages/manpages_3.40-0.1_all.deb
manpages_3.40.orig.tar.gz
  to main/m/manpages/manpages_3.40.orig.tar.gz



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 156154@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> (supplier of updated manpages package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 15:24:57 +0200
Source: manpages
Binary: manpages manpages-dev
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.40-0.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
Changed-By: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Description: 
 manpages   - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
 manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 147778 156154 202022 337581 607398 614881 655088 656994 659750 664688 665780 667672
Changes: 
 manpages (3.40-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * debian/watch: kernel.org is back
   * Install sigwait.3, no more conflict with glibc-doc (Closes: #147778)
   * Imported Upstream version 3.40:
     . new manpages: getent.1 process_vm_readv.2 sendmmsg.2 get_nprocs_conf.3
         malloc_get_state.3 malloc_trim.3 malloc_usable_size.3 mallopt.3
         mcheck.3 scandirat.3
     . pipe.2: Add "#include <fntl.h>" for O_* constants (Closes: #659750)
     . resolv.conf.5:
         - Describe syntax used for comments (Closes: #656994)
         - Document "single-request" option (Closes: #607398)
     . rtnetlink.3: fix example (Closes: #655088)
     . dbopen.3 and db related: refer to libdb API (Closes: #337581)
     . fread.3: return value is number of items, not bytes (Closes: #665780)
     . gettimeofday.2: mark DST_ constants as obsolete (Closes: #614881)
     . rcmd.3: Document "_af" variants of these functions (Closes: #202022)
     . iso_8859-1.7: Add "-" for SOFT HYPHEN (Closes: #156154)
     . keyctl.2: Strip trailing tabs from source line (Closes: #664688)
   * debian/control:
     . Replace libc-bin (<< 2.13-31) as getent.1 is now provided by manpages
     . Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3
   * debian/inst: install section 1 in manpages binary package.
   * mallopt.3: switch to the upstream version
   * motd.tail(5): fix groff warnings, two spaces instead of one after period
     (Closes: #667672) - thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason
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