giftrans (1.12.2-11) unstable; urgency=low

   * Add a warning to the manpage about needing to escape # characters when

     specifying colours. Closes: #270499.

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 -- Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>  Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:50:05 +0000

--- giftrans-1.12.2.orig/giftrans.1

+++ giftrans-1.12.2/giftrans.1

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

 .fi

 .in -.5i

 ..

-.TH GIFTRANS l local

+.TH GIFTRANS 1

 .SH NAME

 .PP

 giftrans \- transform gif from gif87 to gif89, making one color transparent

@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@

 .IP -e

 Redirect stderr to a file

 .PP

-Colors may be specified as index, as rgb.txt entry or in the #rrggbb form.

+Colors may be specified as index, as rgb.txt entry or in the #rrggbb

+form. Of course, beware that shells will often consider the #

+character to start a comment and so you may have to escape it!

 .SH EXAMPLE

 .PP

 To convert the white background of a gif file to transparent, use