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test/system: Unbreak the manual page checks with GNU roff >= 1.23
GNU roff 1.23 stopped remapping unescaped Hyphen-Minus (ie., - or 0x2D) characters in the input to Hyphen-Minus in the output. Instead, it follows the specified behaviour of converting unescaped Hyphen-Minus characters in the input to Hyphen (ie., ‐ or 0x2010) in the output. To get Hyphen-Minus characters in the output, one needs to escape the Hyphen-Minus with a backslash (ie., \-) in the input [1]. Therefore, the command line options documented in the manuals are no longer prefixed with the Hyphen-Minus character that's needed to ctually use them. This breaks copying and pasting from the manuals and searching within them. Unfortunately, escaping the Hyphen-Minus characters in Markdown doesn't have the intended effect of having Hyphen-Minus in the generated manual pages [2]. Therefore, this is worked around by having the tests check for both Hyphen-Minus and Hyphen. Note that some operating system distributions, like Debian, have reverted this change from GNU roff, but others haven't. So, unless it can be guaranteed that the manuals will always have Hyphen-Minus regardless of which GNU roff version or variant is being used, the tests need to check for both. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/947941/ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2023-07/msg00001.html https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/PROBLEMS?h=1.23.0#n82 [2] cpuguy83/go-md2man#101 #1398
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