I hyphen-used-as-minus-sign

All reports of hyphen-used-as-minus-sign for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

Manual page seems to contain a hyphen where a minus sign was intended. "-" chars are interpreted as hyphens (U+2010) by groff, not as minus signs (U+002D). Since options to programs use minus signs (U+002D), this means for example in UTF-8 locales that you cannot cut&paste options, nor search for them easily.

"-" must be escaped ("\-") to be interpreted as minus. If you really intend a hyphen, write it as "\(hy" to emphasise that fact. See groff(7) and especially groff_char(7) for details, and also the thread starting with http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200303/msg01481.html

If you use some tool that converts your documentation to groff format, it might be possible that this tool converts dashes of any kind to groff hyphens, while the safe way of converting dashes is usually to convert them to "\-".

Because this error can occur very often we show only the first 10 occurrences for each man page and give the number of suppressed occurrences. If you want to see all warnings, run lintian with the -d/--debug option.

Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain

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