[darcs-users] darcs patch: Avoid silly manpage error.

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Thu Jul 3 01:42:49 UTC 2008


Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com> writes:
> Thu Jul  3 11:07:33 EST 2008  Trent W. Buck <trentbuck at gmail.com>
>   * Avoid silly manpage error.
>   man (nroff) treats an apostrophe in the first column specially,
>   resulting in a syntax error without this patch.
>
>   Ideally, all cases of 'foo' in the manpage (i.e. docstrings) should
>   become `foo', since man -Tps turns ` and ' into left and right single
>   quotes respectively.

Specifically, lintian (a bug checking tool for .deb package) reports:

W: darcs: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/darcs.1.gz 23:
warning: `initialize'' not defined (probable missing space after `in')



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