Subject: false \' alert in '\\'

From: Marc Haber <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:54:50 +0200

Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.2
Severity: normal

Hi,

this line:

(space), '@' and '\\' (backslash) (e.g. '\\ ' or '\\@'). To literally match a '\fB\\\fR'

in a man page triggers

I: aide: acute-accent-in-manual-page [usr/share/man/man5/aide.conf.5.gz:16]

I think this is caused by the '\\', and I think that's a false alert.

Greetings
Marc

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