The debian build checks reported a bug in the man page:
troff: <standard input>:129: '\-' is not allowed in an escape name
The man page can be checked with:
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 MANROFFSEQ='' MANWIDTH=80 \
man --warnings -E UTF-8 -l -Tutf8 -Z ./pspp-convert.1 >/dev/null
.SS "Password Options"
When the input file is encrypted, \fBpspp\-convert\fR needs to obtain
a password to decrypt it. To do so, the user may specify the password
-with \f\-p\fR (or \fB\-\-password\fR), or the name of a file containing a
+with \fB\-p\fR (or \fB\-\-password\fR), or the name of a file containing a
list of possible passwords with \fB\-\-password\-list\fR, or an
alphabet of possible passwords to try along with a maximum length with
\fB\-a\fR (or \fB\-\-password\-alphabet\fR) and \fB\-l\fR (or