bug#1937: manpage for /usr/bin/mutt (/usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.gz) contains unescaped hyphens

[Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx>]

Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.6-20040722+1
Severity: normal

[NOTE: this bug report has been submitted to the debian BTS as Bug#279591.
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From: Joseph Nahmias <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: manpage for /usr/bin/mutt (/usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.gz) contains 
unescaped hyphens
Date: Wed,  3 Nov 2004 23:32:08 +0000 (UTC)

The manpage '/usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.gz' contains unescaped hyphens
which causes groff to render them as hyphens (U+2010) rather than
regular ASCII dashes (0x2D).

This causes problems in a number of cases: for example when someone
wants to cut-and-paste from a manpage -- since programs do not interpret
the unicode hyphen as a dash.  Also, most pagers differentiate between
the two characters, making searching for text that includes a dash
difficult.

Please change all instances of the '-' character in the manpage to '\-'
to fix this.  The following command should highlight most of the
problematic instances:

    zgrep -Hn [^\\]- /usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.gz | egrep -v '[0-9]+:\.\\"'

Thanks,
Joe Nahmias