Re: Debian patches for rssh

[Russ A. <rr...@st...>]

Derek Martin <co...@pi...> writes:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 08:30:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Understood.  I wasn't sure how complete that feeling was and wanted to
>> make sure that I wasn't hoarding patches or fixes that other people may
>> want, since I know that's a potential problem with Linux distributions.
>> I'll maintain them as patches in the Debian package, and I'm happy to
>> resend should you at any point decide you want to do another minor
>> version release with these sorts of random fixes.

> If you want, you could put a page together with such patches, and I
> could add a link to it.  They seem useful enough, though frankly not
> quite enough to motivate me to get off me arse and release another
> release.

This is a good idea.  I'll look at doing this.

I suppose I could also tackle an svnserve patch in that forum, but that's
a much bigger divergence.  Well, I'll start with writing a little
something to make it easy to put up the patches I already have.

> FWIW, I use UTF-8, and never noticed any problems with the dashes in
> the man page...  Not that I've looked at it in, oh, say a year. :)

It's a very subtle visual difference (and may not look different all
depending on your font).  It really only bites people if they're trying to
search for a switch, since "-e" won't match "<hyphen>e", which doesn't
apply to rssh, or if they're trying to cut and paste.  But it also tells
*roff that it's an okay place for breaking the word, which it isn't.

Really, the rssh man page didn't run into any of the possible problems
with this, so it's more a fix to be completely correct.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rr...@st...)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>