Fix usage of hyphens in some manual pages

* man/deb-symbols.5: Escape some hyphens so that they
are not used as minus sign.
* man/dpkg-architecture.1: Same.
* man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1: Same.
* man/start-stop-daemon.8: Same.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 348a7250a3575c53507856feb63eb027915cf960..72115ee05662e3d4ac26effbda5a265e3e056e6c 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ dpkg (1.14.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Some lintian cleanup:
     - add overrides for some useless I: tags
     - drop unused overrides
+    - updated several manual pages to fix hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
 
   [ Frank Lichtenheld ]
   * Add a warning in dpkg-buildpackage if the build-dependencies are not

diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog
index ed41c60828bcffbd435f0a2525a01da97427a469..23b841bf39cc92ce4b31c56cf4b28a95e612ad4f 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ChangeLog
+++ b/man/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
        * po/po4a.cfg: Add deb-symbols.5 in the list of manual pages to
        translate.
+       * deb-symbols.5, dpkg-architecture.1, dpkg-shlibdeps.1,
+       start-stop-daemon.8: Espace some hyphens so that they do
+       not end up as minus sign.
 
 2008-02-19  Frank Lichtenheld  <djpig@debian.org>
 

diff --git a/man/deb-symbols.5 b/man/deb-symbols.5
index 285f5427a21277b7db3a40862703786de4aa2b2d..6681faa0607038c13fd8e0a01f6a6bc1c72d5f20 100644 (file)
--- a/man/deb-symbols.5
+++ b/man/deb-symbols.5
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ etc.
 Each entry for a library can also have some fields of meta-information.
 Those fields are stored on lines starting with an asterisk. Currently,
 the only valid field is \fIBuild-Depends-Package\fR, it indicates the name
-of the "-dev" package associated to the library and is used by
+of the "\-dev" package associated to the library and is used by
 dpkg-shlibdeps to make sure that the dependency generated is at least as
 strict as the corresponding build dependency.
 .SH EXAMPLES

diff --git a/man/dpkg-architecture.1 b/man/dpkg-architecture.1
index e6ed34a193af1de39f73280defb13c1c0c082478..e66de87767325b5c1c6398608444b59d0c713497 100644 (file)
--- a/man/dpkg-architecture.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-architecture.1
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ dpkg\-architecture \-elinux\-alpha
 .IP
 dpkg\-architecture \-amips \-elinux\-mips
 .PP
-Check if the current architecture or an architecture provided with -a are
+Check if the current architecture or an architecture provided with \-a are
 Linux systems:
 .IP
 dpkg\-architecture \-ilinux\-any

diff --git a/man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1 b/man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1
index 03c6bedc9c3e08b083192bbb222d3f6fde9b5992..6677abce1e526284bb1c956066e6d52086772014 100644 (file)
--- a/man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1
+++ b/man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1
@@ -295,13 +295,13 @@ of the binary to avoid problems.
 
 Calling
 .B dpkg\-shlibdeps
-in verbose mode (-v) will provide much more information about where it
+in verbose mode (\-v) will provide much more information about where it
 tried to find the dependency information. This might be useful if you
 don't understand why it's giving you this error.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR deb\-shlibs (5),
 .BR deb\-symbols (5),
-.BR dpkg-gensymbols (1).
+.BR dpkg\-gensymbols (1).
 .
 .SH AUTHORS
 Copyright (C) 1995-1996 Ian Jackson

diff --git a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
index 4ed8a7452fb61f8d90fa88c7ca107f52ce91b255..594175115d15e494ce3d66d0223166a9e545832c 100644 (file)
--- a/man/start-stop-daemon.8
+++ b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
@@ -262,19 +262,19 @@ Start the \fBfood\fP daemon, unless one is already running (a process named
 food, running as user food, with pid in food.pid):
 .IP
 .nf
-start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo --user food --name food --pidfile /var/run/food.pid --startas /usr/sbin/food --chuid food -- --daemon
+start\-stop\-daemon \-\-start \-\-oknodo \-\-user food \-\-name food \-\-pidfile /var/run/food.pid \-\-startas /usr/sbin/food \-\-chuid food \-\- \-\-daemon
 .fi
 .PP
 Send \fBSIGTERM\fP to \fBfood\fP and wait up to 5 seconds for it to stop:
 .IP
 .nf
-start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --user food --name food --pidfile /var/run/food.pid --retry 5
+start\-stop\-daemon \-\-stop \-\-oknodo \-\-user food \-\-name food \-\-pidfile /var/run/food.pid \-\-retry 5
 .fi
 .PP
 Demonstration of a custom schedule for stopping \fBfood\fP:
 .IP
 .nf
-start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --user food --name food --pidfile /var/run/food.pid --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5
+start\-stop\-daemon \-\-stop \-\-oknodo \-\-user food \-\-name food \-\-pidfile /var/run/food.pid \-\-retry=TERM/30/KILL/5
 .fi
 .PP
 .