Debian Bug report logs - #1014421
false \' alert in '\\'

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2022 18:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed, pending

Merged with 966803

Found in versions lintian/2.85.0, lintian/2.88.0, lintian/2.115.2

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From: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: false \' alert in '\\'
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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 20:54:50 +0200
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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


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.18.8-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                        2.38.50.20220627-1
ii  bzip2                           1.0.8-5
ii  diffstat                        1.64-1
ii  dpkg                            1.21.8
ii  dpkg-dev                        1.21.8
ii  file                            1:5.41-4
ii  gettext                         0.21-6
ii  gpg                             2.2.35-2
ii  intltool-debian                 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  iso-codes                       4.10.0-1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                 0.1.40+b1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl             1.68-1
ii  libberkeleydb-perl              0.64-1+b2
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl            0.48-1
ii  libclass-xsaccessor-perl        1.19-3+b8
ii  libclone-perl                   0.45-1+b2
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl             2.28-1
ii  libconst-fast-perl              0.014-2
ii  libcpanel-json-xs-perl          4.30-1
ii  libdata-dpath-perl              0.58-1
ii  libdata-validate-___domain-perl    0.10-1.1
ii  libdata-validate-uri-perl       0.07-2
ii  libdevel-size-perl              0.83-1+b3
pn  libdigest-sha-perl              <none>
ii  libdpkg-perl                    1.21.8
ii  libemail-address-xs-perl        1.04-1+b4
ii  libfile-basedir-perl            0.09-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl          0.34-1.1
ii  libfont-ttf-perl                1.06-2
ii  libhtml-html5-entities-perl     0.004-2
ii  libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl  3.16-4
ii  libio-interactive-perl          1.023-1
ii  libipc-run3-perl                0.048-2
ii  libjson-maybexs-perl            1.004003-1
ii  liblist-compare-perl            0.55-1
ii  liblist-someutils-perl          0.58-1
ii  liblist-utilsby-perl            0.12-1
ii  libmldbm-perl                   2.05-3
ii  libmoo-perl                     2.005004-3
ii  libmoox-aliases-perl            0.001006-2
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl         0.27-2
ii  libpath-tiny-perl               0.122-1
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl             0.20-1
ii  libperlio-utf8-strict-perl      0.009-1+b1
ii  libproc-processtable-perl       0.634-1+b1
ii  libregexp-wildcards-perl        1.05-2
ii  libsereal-decoder-perl          4.023+ds-1
ii  libsereal-encoder-perl          4.023+ds-1
ii  libsort-versions-perl           1.62-2
ii  libsyntax-keyword-try-perl      0.27-1
ii  libterm-readkey-perl            2.38-1+b3
ii  libtext-levenshteinxs-perl      0.03-5
ii  libtext-markdown-discount-perl  0.13-1+b1
ii  libtext-xslate-perl             3.5.9-1+b1
ii  libtime-duration-perl           1.21-1
ii  libtime-moment-perl             0.44-1+b4
ii  libtimedate-perl                2.3300-2
ii  libunicode-utf8-perl            0.62-1+b3
ii  liburi-perl                     5.10-1
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl           2.09-1
ii  libwww-perl                     6.67-1
ii  libxml-libxml-perl              2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl            0.83+ds-1+b1
ii  lzip [lzip-decompressor]        1.23-3
ii  lzop                            1.04-2
ii  man-db                          2.10.2-1
ii  patchutils                      0.4.2-1
ii  perl [libencode-perl]           5.34.0-4
ii  t1utils                         1.41-4
ii  unzip                           6.0-26
ii  xz-utils                        5.2.5-2.1

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.61-1

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