Manpage has extra escape characters

[Edward Z. Yang]

Steps to reproduce:

man vam

Expected result: properly formatted manpage
Actual result: Text like

       ["\-h, \-\-help"]
              show this usage message and exit

       ["\-q, \-\-query"]
              be quiet and make the output more parseable (for "status")

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: vim-addon-manager 0.5.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 22 20:06:46 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-21 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: vim-addon-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

I can confirm that the extra characters are also present in the manpage on Ubuntu Trusty.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Low: Just a doc issue

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

With version 0.5.3 in Ubuntu Trusty I am no longer able to reproduce this issue, the extra escape characters are gone. I cannot find anything in the changelog (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vim-addon-manager/0.5.3) indicating that the manpage has been changed, but perhaps it got solved when the package got rebuilt. In any case, it seems like this issue has been resolved, so I'm closing it as Fix Released.