retitle 608051 git: pointless mailto links in manpages
severity 608051 minor
tags 608051 + upstream
quit

Oohara Yuuma wrote:

> The manpage of git-commit(1) mentions [email protected] in the NOTES
> section.  Since it is a fictional address for explaining the --author
> option, listing it among the authors of git looks silly.  Please
> remove it.

asciidoc converts email addresses into hyperlinks automatically, so
docbook-xsl renders them blue with underline and adds a footnote like
so:

        [email protected][1]

        NOTES
        1. [email protected]
           mailto:[email protected]

Doing so indeed looks silly and it adds no value I can see to the
manpage.  Any ideas for suppressing this behavior?

Jonathan

$ dpkg -l asciidoc docbook-xsl | tail -2
ii  asciidoc      8.6.3-1              Highly configurable text format
ii  docbook-xsl   1.76.0~RC1+dfsg-1    stylesheets for processing DocB



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