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Package: gimp1.2-perl
Version: 1.2.2-2
Severity: normal
Hi,
here is the problem:
$ man -k raw-pixel-manipulating
apropos: warning: ***WARNING*** this manpage is no longer up-to-date.
See*(C`examples/map_to_gradient*(C' for a simple raw-pixel-manipulating
plug-in. If you bug me enough I'll rewrite this document. contains a pointer
loop
***WARNING*** this manpage is no longer up-to-date.
See*(C`examples/map_to_gradient*(C' for a simple raw-pixel-manipulating
plug-in. If you bug me enough I'll rewrite this document. (3pm) [Gimp::Pixel] -
(unknown)
Stangely enough, this command give the expected result:
$ man -k "raw pixels"
Gimp::Pixel (3pm) - how to operate on raw pixels.
I have appended below some advice from the mandb manpage.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux irancy 2.4.9-686 #1 Sun Aug 19 10:46:52 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages gimp1.2-perl depends on:
ii gimp1.2 1.2.2-2 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii libgtk-perl 0.7008-1 Perl module for the gtk+ library
ii pdl 1:2.2.1-7 The perl data language. Perl exten
ii perl 5.6.1-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.6.1] 5.6.1-5 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
WHATIS PARSING
mandb parses the NAME section at the top of each manual page looking
for names and descriptions of the fea-
tures documented in each. While the parser is quite tolerant, as it has
to cope with a number of different
forms that have historically been used, it may sometimes fail to extract
the required information.
A correct NAME section looks something like this:
.SH NAME
foo \- program to do something
Some manual pagers require the `\-' to be exactly as shown; mandb is
more tolerant, but for compatibility
with other systems it is nevertheless a good idea to retain the
backslash.
On the left-hand side, there may be several names, separated by commas.
The text on the right-hand side is
free-form, and may be spread over multiple lines. If several features
with different descriptions are being
documented in the same manual page, the following form is therefore used:
.SH NAME
foo, bar \- programs to do something
.br
baz \- program to do nothing
(A macro which starts a new paragraph, like .PP, may be used instead of
the break macro .br.)
There are several common reasons why whatis parsing fails. Sometimes
authors of manual pages replace `.SH
NAME' with `.SH MYPROGRAM', and then mandb cannot find the section
from which to extract the information it
needs. Sometimes authors include a NAME section, but place free-form
text there rather than `name \-
description'. However, any syntax resembling the above should be
accepted.
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These bugs are about a version of GIMP in woody; woody is no longer
supported. I hope these bugs have been fixed in more recent version
of GIMP, but if they haven't please let me know.
--
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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