Bug#869731: man-db: apropos does not work for directories found from PATH

2017-07-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 26 July 2017 at 00:05, Colin Watson wrote: > > I think it might be worth revisiting the change in man-db 2.4.2-3 to > turn off MAN_DB_CREATES, which means that man doesn't create databases > that doesn't already exist (once the database exists, man should > automatically

Bug#869731: man-db: apropos does not work for directories found from PATH

2017-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:53:45PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 25 July 2017 at 23:49, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:24:18PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > > I just noticed that man pages installed in ~/.local/share/man are > > > not found by

Bug#869731: man-db: apropos does not work for directories found from PATH

2017-07-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 25 July 2017 at 23:49, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:24:18PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > > I just noticed that man pages installed in ~/.local/share/man are not > found > > by apropos. This appears to be because there’s no database for this > >

Bug#869731: man-db: apropos does not work for directories found from PATH

2017-07-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:24:18PM +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote: > I just noticed that man pages installed in ~/.local/share/man are not found > by apropos. This appears to be because there’s no database for this > directory. man finds the directory via the corresponding ~/.local/bin entry > in

Bug#869731: man-db: apropos does not work for directories found from PATH

2017-07-25 Thread Reuben Thomas
Package: man-db Version: 2.7.5-1 Severity: normal I just noticed that man pages installed in ~/.local/share/man are not found by apropos. This appears to be because there’s no database for this directory. man finds the directory via the corresponding ~/.local/bin entry in PATH. It would be nice