[pkg-netfilter-team] Bug#1043351: ebtables: unescaped hyphens in manpage

[Jeremy Sowden]

Control: affects -1 iptables

On 2023-08-09, at 13:27:53 +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> Package: ebtables
> Version: 2.0.11-5
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: linus.luessing at c0d3.blue
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I tried running the following ebtables command, but got an error:
> 
> ```
> $ sudo ebtables -I INPUT -i veth1 -j mark ‐‐mark-set 0x42
> ebtables v1.8.9 (nf_tables): Bad argument : '‐‐mark-set'
> ```
> 
> On #netfilter IRC people with eagle-eyes and apparently a different
> font than me pointed out that I was trying to use Unicode instead of
> ASCII hyphens. Changing the command to use "--mark-set", with ASCII
> hyphens, instead helped.
> 
> It seems I copied the Unicode version from the ebtables manpage. I
> believe it's a similar issue to this one:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1043309
> 
> That is un-escaped hyphens in the manpage source code are rendered to
> Unicode hyphens.
> 
> To fix this the hyphens should be escaped in the manpage source code.
> 
> Regards, Linus
> 
> (Kudos to @aiyion at infosec.exchange on Mastodon who pointed me to the
> curl Debian bug report and by that to the origin of my issue.)

This problem also affects iptables, since the ebtables-nft man-page is
almost identical.

J.

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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386, arm64
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages ebtables depends on:
> ii  libc6    2.37-6
> ii  netbase  6.4
> 
> Versions of packages ebtables recommends:
> ii  iptables  1.8.9-2
> ii  kmod      30+20230519-1
> 
> ebtables suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
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