[ovs-dev] [patch] ovsdb-server(1): fix escaping

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 09:51:40AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for letting me know.