[ovs-dev] [patch] ovsdb-server(1): fix escaping
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Thu Aug 19 16:51:40 UTC 2010
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 05:05:40PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> 1) Fix what appears to be a typo in a way that is
> consistent with the vsdb-client(1) man page.
>
> I noticed this problem because lintian complained about it
> when I was testing the building of debian packages. I can
> be observed using the following command.
>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l ./ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in > /dev/null
>
> <standard input>:11: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name
> <standard input>:12: `\-' is not allowed in an escape name
>
> 2) Don't escape hyphens in names
>
> Again, this problem can be observed using
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 MANWIDTH=80 man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l ./ovsdb/ovsdb-server.1.in > /dev/null
>
> man: can't open lib/daemon\-syn.man: No such file or directory
> man: -:10: warning: failed .so request
> man: can't open lib/vlog\-syn.man: No such file or directory
> man: -:10: warning: failed .so request
> man: can't open lib/unixctl\-syn.man: No such file or directory
> man: -:10: warning: failed .so request
> man: can't open lib/common\-syn.man: No such file or directory
> man: -:10: warning: failed .so request
> <standard input>:13: a special character is not allowed in a name
> <standard input>:13: can't open `lib/daemon': No such file or directory
> <standard input>:14: a special character is not allowed in a name
> <standard input>:14: can't open `lib/vlog': No such file or directory
> <standard input>:15: a special character is not allowed in a name
> <standard input>:15: can't open `lib/unixctl': No such file or directory
> <standard input>:16: a special character is not allowed in a name
> <standard input>:16: can't open `lib/common': No such file or directory
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
Thanks, Simon. We had a little bit of a race here: my patch "Fix typos
in manpages." from a few days ago made the same fixes. Since that one
was part of a larger series that made more changes to the same files, I
pushed that series instead.
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