Package: man-db Version: 2.5.9-4 Architecture: amd64, i386 Severity: wishlist
The daily cron-job of man-db changes the modification time of the localization sub-directories in /var/cache/man/, e.g., /var/cache/man/de, also the sub-directories only contain files with older modification times. Example: $ ls -lFa /var/cache/man/de total 24 drwxr-sr-x 7 man root 160 Apr 5 07:35 ./ drwxr-sr-x 35 man root 720 Apr 5 07:35 ../ drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 40 Apr 4 08:06 cat1/ drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 40 Apr 4 08:06 cat3/ drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 40 Apr 4 08:06 cat5/ drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 40 Apr 4 08:06 cat7/ drwxr-sr-x 2 man root 40 Apr 4 08:06 cat8/ -rw-r--r-- 1 man root 23225 Apr 4 08:06 index.db So this results in some (unnecessary) write operations on the storage device. This is disadvantageous in terms of effort and wear (especially on SSDs). I did not dig through the source code of mandb to get an idea why this happens. Maybe for the maintainer of the package it is obvious. Otherwise, I could try to identify the cause, if desired. -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
