GNU bug report logs - #31803
Problems in chroot.2, ln.1, test.1, [.1

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: esr <at> thyrsus.com

Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:17:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 14649

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: esr <at> thyrsus.com
Cc: 31803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: bug#31803: Problems in chroot.2, ln.1, test.1, [.1
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:09:08 -0700
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On 06/13/2018 09:09 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> I think [\& would be better.  I have to quote-strip while parsing
> synopsis sections, so there's an order-of-operations issue there
> that's best avoided.

OK, I installed the attached. Though in hindsight I wonder, can't 
doclifter see that the brackets are bolded, and so are literals instead 
of being metanotation? (Can't hurt to ask...)

[0001-doc-port-test.1-to-doclifter.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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