Package: manpages-nl Version: 20050324-1 Severity: minor
There are some files in /usr/share/man/nl/man3 that are not gzipped. This might be a violation of Debian policy, but I'm not sure about that. All these files are symbolic links. The main problem is that the files they point to don't exist, so the links are broken. These are the files. $ ls -l /usr/share/man/nl/man3/*3 totaal 120 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-07-15 11:05 fprintf.3 -> ../printf.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-15 11:05 fscanf.3 -> scanf.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-15 11:05 sscanf.3 -> scanf.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-15 11:05 vfscanf.3 -> scanf.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-15 11:05 vscanf.3 -> scanf.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-15 11:05 vsscanf.3 -> scanf.3 This results in warnings when bringing up one of those man pages: $ man fprintf man: warning: /usr/share/man/nl/man3/fprintf.3 is a dangling symlink Reformatting fprintf(3), please wait... Then it continues just fine because in the same directory there is a symbolic file fprintf.3.gz that points correctly to printf.3.gz. For the scanf page the problem is slightly bigger, as there seems to be no Dutch version for that page, so the English one is displayed instead, after the same warning as above: $ man fscanf man: warning: /usr/share/man/nl/man3/fscanf.3 is a dangling symlink Reformatting fscanf(3), please wait... When I remove these dangling symlinks, the warning goes away. So that seems to be the solution. And you may want to look if there is a Dutch version of scanf.3.gz somewhere. Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages manpages-nl depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy -- debconf information: * manpages-nl/lang: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
