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

Attachment: man-debug.tar.gz
Description: Binary data

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