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and subject line Re: Bug#197790: Explanation and solution of the more search bug
has caused the Debian Bug report #197790,
regarding util-linux: [more] doesn't handle backspace in string search
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Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.1-9
Severity: important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux mobo 2.4.20 #3 Mon Dec 23 15:33:25 CST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 5.20020211-8 More utilities from FreeBSD.
ii debconf 1.2.35 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.10 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii groff 1.18.1-9 GNU troff text-formatting system
ii groff-base 1.18.1-9 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb3 3.2.9-19 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru
-- debconf information:
man-db/build-database: true
man-db/rebuild-database: true
* man-db/install-setuid: false
Searching for text in a man page seems to be broken. For example,
'man gcc' followed by a '/mpower' replies with a 'Pattern not found'
even though the man page clearly contains this string. Similarly,
/msoft-float does return a hit, one single hit, in the DEC Alpha
section, even though the msoft-float flag occurs in over half
a dozen different sections of this man page.
This appears to be a regression: the version of man on my
SuSE SLES8 powerpc box does not have this problem: it is
man --version
man, version 2.3.19, 14 May 2001
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> I have written a patch (attached) which fixes this behaviour. I am also
> sending this upstream. The patch is against debian util-linux-2.12-3;
> it should apply cleanly against a vanilla util-linux-2.12, with some line
> offsets. I would be grateful is the maintainer of more would take a good
> look at this too; I think I have it correct, but the sourcecode is somewhat
> cryptic at places.
Thanks. I'm closing this in Debian assuming that upstream has either
accepted or rejected the patch; given it's quite old I also don't
think it's going to apply on top of current versions. Anyway,
upstream is the right place to continue discussing this if needed.
Cheers,
Chris
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