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Description: Fix manpage quotation found by lintian
Author: Carsten Leonhardt <leo@debian.org>
Last-Update: 2020-10-31

An apostrophe at the beginning of the line is a command for (g)roff,
so it must be either escaped or moved away from the beginning of the
line to have a real apostrophe. The sequence \' doesn't stand for an
apostrophe, however, but an acute accent. There are escaped sequences
for an apostrophe, but they don't seem to be portable. Therefore, the
easiest solution is to move the apostrophe away from the beginning of
the line.


--- a/scsitape.1
+++ b/scsitape.1
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@
 attempt to intermingle scsitape commands with native tape driver
 operations. Note that BRU 16.1 for Solaris (and possibly others, but
 Solaris I know about) will have a 'scsi' keyword to bypass the 
-native tape driver and write via direct uscsi commands, so if you use
-\'scsitape\' to bypass the flaws of the native Solaris driver, you can use
+native tape driver and write via direct uscsi commands, so if you
+use 'scsitape' to bypass the flaws of the native Solaris driver, you can use
 BRU 16.1 to write your actual tape archives. (Assuming that BRU 16.1
 has been released at the time that you read this).