[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#399947: docbook-utils: docbook2man doesn't escape correctly . and '

[Simon Paillard]

Package: docbook-utils
Version: 0.6.14-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Hello,

docbook2man escapes . and ' only at the beginning of a line :
$_[0] =~ s/^\./\\\&\./;

So if there are some spaces or tab before . or ', they are not escaped
while they should be.
That can break some manpages, without any warning on build.

See attached the patch provided by Nicolas François.

Regards,

-- 
Simon Paillard


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (999, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages docbook-utils depends on:
ii  docbook-dsssl            1.79-4          modular DocBook DSSSL stylesheets,
ii  jadetex                  3.13-7.1        generator of printable output from
ii  lynx                     2.8.5-2sarge2.1 Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  perl                     5.8.8-6.1       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  sgmlspl                  1.03ii-31       SGMLS-based example Perl script fo
ii  sp                       1.3.4-1.2.1-47  James Clark's SGML parsing tools

Versions of packages docbook-utils recommends:
ii  docbook-xml                   4.4-5      standard XML documentation system,

-- no debconf information
-------------- next part --------------
--- docbook2man-spec.pl.bak	2006-11-19 19:50:12.000000000 +0100
+++ docbook2man-spec.pl.new	2006-11-23 00:14:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -1199,8 +1199,8 @@
 	$_[0] =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
 
 	# Escape dots and single quotes in column 1
-	$_[0] =~ s/^\./\\\&\./;
-	$_[0] =~ s/^\'/\\\&\'/;
+	$_[0] =~ s/^[ \t]*\./\\\&\./;
+	$_[0] =~ s/^[ \t]*\'/\\\&\'/;
 
 	# In non-'pre'-type elements:
 	if(!$nocollapse_whitespace) {