Package: man-db Version: 2.4.4-4 Severity: normal
Manpaths containing a plus character ('+') are broken. They are not searched when looking for manpages. To reproduce: $ mkdir man++ $ cd man++ $ mkdir man1 $ cp /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz man1 $ man -M `pwd` man No manual entry for man See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. Relevant parts of -d output are: adding /home/paul/man++ to manpathlist *manpath search path* = /home/paul/man++ --priv_drop_count = 0 ++priv_drop_count = 1 searching in /home/paul/man++, section 1 trying section 1 with globbing Layout is GNU (1) update_directory_cache /home/paul/man\+\+/man1: miss can't open directory /home/paul/man\+\+/man1: No such file or directory directory cache update failed update_directory_cache /home/paul/man\+\+/cat1: miss can't open directory /home/paul/man\+\+/cat1: No such file or directory directory cache update failed -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.1.7 collection of more utilities from ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.14.6 package maintenance system for Deb ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-13 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime man-db recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]