[Dctrl-tools-devel] Bug#557964: Bug#557964: dctrl-tools: Man page examples use quotes instead of apostrophes and backticks

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:54:43PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> I don't know.  Have you got the en_US.UTF8 locale available at all?

Yes - generated it for this test specifically.

> $ locale -a
> C
> en_US
> en_US.iso88591
> en_US.utf8
> hu_HU
> hu_HU.iso88592
> hu_HU.utf8
> hungarian
> POSIX

ajk at kukkaseppele:~$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
fi_FI
fi_FI at euro
fi_FI.iso88591
fi_FI.iso885915 at euro
fi_FI.utf8
finnish
POSIX
 
> Or isn't the LANG variable overridden by LC_* in your environment?

Tried that too before sending the earlier email.  No change.

> Anyway, as #457839 explains:
> 
>   So, the Ascii grave accent (`) and Ascii apostrophe (') must never be
>   used to describe shell syntax in groff code.
> 
> However, grep-dctrl.1 contains
> 
>   % grep\-status \-P \-e 'apt|dpkg'
> 
> If I change it to
> 
>   % grep\-status \-P \-e \(aqapt|dpkg\(aq
> 
> the problem disappears.  I don't know why the problem does not manifest
> for you, but in my opinion the man page is incorrect and needs fixing.

I'm not comfortable making a change I can't verify myself, but if you are
willing to provide a tested patch, that'd solve the problem.

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