[Bug 528895] Re: git-core should depend on man-db

[Nickolas Burr]

Although somewhat detached from the original bug description, I
encountered a similar issue with git (1.9.1, 2.11.0) while using trusty
on WSL. I received the following error message when running 'git help':

warning: failed to exec 'man': Is a directory
fatal: no man viewer handled the request

I'm not sure if it's a package misconfiguration or something else, but I
was able to find a workaround by manually setting the path to the man
executable: git config --global man.man.path /usr/bin/man

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[Bug 528895] Re: git-core should depend on man-db

[Anders Kaseorg]

man-db should be at most a recommendation because (1) it’s only
documentation and (2) the man viewer is configurable.  However, it is
not normal for packages to either depend or recommend man-db.  It’s in
ubuntu-standard, and if you don’t have ubuntu-standard there might be a
reason you don’t want man-db (e.g. very low disk space).

** Changed in: git-core (Ubuntu)
   Status: New = Invalid

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