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Package: man-db
Version: 2.3.20-18.woody.4
Severity: important
Since an "apropos blah" often finds many things related to "blah",
duplication of that information makes it even more difficult to
find the relevant information. And since the re-configuration of
/etc/manpath.config is far from straight forward, this is a non-
trivial problem for a user to solve.
My choice of "important" may be questionable, but I think it's
correct. The user is asking for information when s/he invokes this
command and is instead confronted with a redundant mass of data.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux infidel 2.4.18-1-686 #1 Sun Feb 1 03:55:30 MST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 5.20020211-4.99 More utilities from FreeBSD.
ii debconf 1.2.23woody1 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.9.21 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii groff 1.17.2-15.woody.1 GNU troff text-formatting system
ii groff-base 1.17.2-15.woody.1 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb2 2:2.7.7.0-7 The Berkeley database routines (ru
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Source: man-db
Source-Version: 2.5.0-1
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:24:59PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 04:16:58PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Colin Watson:
> > > Hm. That's most odd. Do you have /usr/man as a symlink to /usr/share/man
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 29 23:28 /usr/man -> share/man/
> >
> > Nice call Colin.
>
> I'll downgrade this as I don't think this is a default configuration
> (?), and at least it's a configuration which shouldn't be necessary. If
> something breaks without /usr/man, that too is a bug.
>
> I'll see what I can do; it may be an easy fix.
In the end I fixed this without realising it, in the process of fixing
#259338.
man-db (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release.
[...]
- Add output keys to a hashtable, and skip any that have already been
seen (closes: #259338).
[...]
-- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:38:25 +0100
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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