Re: bin/45983: makemandb/apropos wrong with hyphenated words

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45983; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/45983: makemandb/apropos wrong with hyphenated words
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:53:48 +0530

 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM,  <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost> wrote:
 >>Number: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 45983
 >>Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 bin
 >>Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 new apropos wrong with hyphenated words
 >>Confidential: =A0 no
 >>Severity: =A0 =A0 =A0 non-critical
 >>Priority: =A0 =A0 =A0 low
 >>Responsible: =A0 =A0bin-bug-people
 >>State: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0open
 >>Class: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0sw-bug
 >>Submitter-Id: =A0 net
 >>Arrival-Date: =A0 Sat Feb 11 16:55:00 +0000 2012
 >>Originator: =A0 =A0 Nicolas Joly
 >>Release: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0NetBSD 5.99.64
 >>Organization:
 > Insitut Pasteur
 >>Environment:
 > System: NetBSD lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr 5.99.64 NetBSD 5.99.64 (LANFEUST) =
 #1: Sat Feb 11 09:44:26 CET 2012 
njoly%lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr@localhost:/local/src/N=
 etBSD/obj.amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/LANFEUST amd64
 > Architecture: x86_64
 > Machine: amd64
 >>Description:
 > apropos(1) when queried about by example edquota, show text with hyphens
 > missing/unreadable. Looks like the rs ascii char (0x1e) is used here.
 >
 > njoly@lanfeust [~]> apropos edquota | head
 > edquota(8) =A0 =A0 =A0edit user quotas
 > ...in a humanreadable format. On leaving the editor, edquota reads the te=
 mporary file and modifies the ondisk quotas to reflect the changes made. If=
  the p flag is specified, edquota will duplicate the quotas of the prototyp=
 ical user...
 > [...]
 >
 > njoly@lanfeust [~]> apropos edquota | less
 > edquota(8) =A0 =A0 =A0edit user quotas
 > ...in a human^^readable format. On leaving the editor, edquota reads the =
 temporary file and modifies the on^^disk quotas to reflect the changes made=
 . If the p flag is specified, edquota will duplicate the quotas of the prot=
 otypical user...
 > [...]
 >
 > njoly@lanfeust [~]> man 8 edquota
 > [...]
 > =A0 =A0 mixed (see EXAMPLES below). =A0If the -H option if used, current =
 quota,
 > =A0 =A0 disk usage and time are displayed in a human-readable format.
 >
 > =A0 =A0 On leaving the editor, edquota reads the temporary file and modif=
 ies the
 > =A0 =A0 on-disk quotas to reflect the changes made.
 > [...]
 >
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 > Compare apropos and manpage output for edquota. Notice hyphens difference=
 s.
 >>Fix:
 > Please.
 >
 
 Thanks for reporting this issue. It should be fixed after this commit:
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2012/02/15/msg031808.html
 
 --
 Abhinav