This bug was fixed in the package man-db - 2.5.6-1
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man-db (2.5.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream release:
- Implement 'man -K', which was the last major remaining missing feature
when comparing man-db with the man package (closes: #135926, LP:
#390575).
I've fixed this upstream, and the fix will be in man-db 2.5.6.
Wed Jul 22 10:48:10 BST 2009 Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org
Make whatis/apropos only display any given manual page, or pointers
to it, once (Ubuntu bug #27113).
* lib/hashtable.c (hash_lookup_structure):
The 'man -wa' case will be fixed by man-db 2.5.4 (this is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496172), but the whatis
case is unfortunately separate. I'll add this to my stack of things to
look at upstream.
wget could fix this by lower-casing its name in the NAME section of
its
