bug#22636: tab characters in documentation

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello Clint,

Sorry for the delayed response.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:22:25PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
> The way @kbd{tab} is getting rendered in the Info and HTML
> documentation is confusing some users, f.ex.
> https://bugs.debian.org/671817

Thanks for the report.

We can and should change this.

I'd also like to start working towards reducing the amount of upstream 
patches debian uses on gnu sed.

For sed-4.2.2 in Debian/Jessie I saw there were many patches.

I just checked 'stretch', and it seems you've picked up sed-4.3 and it 
seems there are less patches. If there's anything we can improve, please 
let us know.

Lastly, two changes since the official 4.3 (if it is included in 
stretch):

1.
sed-4.3 has a critical bug which was discovered after the release.
Please see here:
 https://bugs.gnu.org/25390
Fixed in these commits:
 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=44d99bf5c98
 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=0f98f0055e4

2.
I think you've added an upstream patch about cross-compiling.
We encorporated something similar in the sed's git, see here:
 https://bugs.gnu.org/25358
Fixed in this commit:
 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=a0a25e3ee35f


There will be a sed-4.3.1 very soon with this buxfix,
but I can't commit to ETA.


regards,
- assaf