Debian Bug report logs - #1036826
po4a: Escape sequence \c encountered. This is not completely handled yet.

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Package: po4a; Maintainer for po4a is Martin Quinson <[email protected]>; Source for po4a is src:po4a (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Helge Kreutzmann <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 12:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed-upstream

Found in version po4a/0.69-1

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[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hello Bjarni,
On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 04:12:07PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 01:59:40PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> >[...]
> > .BI \-f " program-file\fR,\fP "\c
> > .BI \-\^\-file " program-file"
>   This is a wrong use of '\c', as its purpose is to join the output of
> two macros _without_ an intervening space character.
> 
>   So remove ' ' and '\c', changing
> 
> .BI \-f " program-file\fR,\fP "\c
> 
>   to
> 
> .BI \-f " program-file\fR,\fP"

I'm currently looking for the best regular expressions to catch all
occurences on the fly before converting.

And I'll report this to the source package, i.e. the author of this
page. This was introduced recently, i.e. in bullseye it is not
present.

Thanks for the quick analysis.

Greetings

        Helge

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