Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-3 Severity: important case 1: installed manpages-dev and manpages-ja-dev, not installed manpages-posix-dev
$ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 man -a -w select /usr/share/man/man2/select.2.gz /usr/share/man/ja/man2/select.2.gz /usr/share/man/man2/select.2.gz $ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 man -w select /usr/share/man/man2/select.2.gz It's incorrect. I expected result "/usr/share/man/ja/man2/select.2.gz". case 2: installed manpages-dev, manpages-ja-dev and manpages-posix-dev $ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 man -a -w select /usr/share/man/man2/select.2.gz /usr/share/man/ja/man2/select.2.gz /usr/share/man/man2/select.2.gz /usr/share/man/man3/select.3posix.gz $ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 man -w select /usr/share/man/ja/man2/select.2.gz It's correct. $ egrep ^SECTION /etc/manpath.config SECTION 1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 5 4 9 6 7 I attached debug outputs of "man -d -w select" for each case. man-debug-1.txt for case 1, man-debug-2.txt for case 2. (file encoding is UTF-8) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP (charmap=EUC-JP) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.1.4 collection of more utilities from ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.4 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.21 package maintenance system for Deb ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-12 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime man-db recommends no packages. -- debconf information: man-db/build-database: true man-db/rebuild-database: true * man-db/install-setuid: false
man-debug.tar.gz
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