Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.3-5
Severity: minor

There's no debian package that puts man pages under /usr/X11R6/man any
more, therefore it seems to be futile and a waste of computer ressources
to go searching /usr/X11R6/man et al. Please remove it from man-db:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man --debug gem
[...]
>From the config file /etc/manpath.config:
[...]
Mandatory mandir `/usr/X11R6/man'.
[...]
Path `/usr/X11R6/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/X11R6/man'.
Path `/usr/bin/X11' mapped to mandir `/usr/X11R6/man'.
[...]
Global mandir `/usr/X11R6/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/X11R6'.
[...]
`/usr/X11R6/man'        `'      `1'
[...]
`/usr/bin/X11'  `/usr/X11R6/man'        `0'
[...]
`/usr/X11R6/man'        `/var/cache/man/X11R6'  `-1'
[...]
path directory /usr/bin/X11 is in the config file
adding /usr/X11R6/man to manpath
[...etc...]


I've grepped the man-db sources and apart from src/man_db.conf.in from
which /etc/manpath.conf is being generated there are plenty of pointers
to /usr/X11R6/man in the man(1) man pages themselves.

I've checked the FHS 2.3 and it only says that:

"Manual pages for X11R6 are stored in /usr/X11R6/man", so a patch that
removes any reference to /usr/X11R6/man from the man pages would
probably not be accepted upstream and would have to be maintained for
Debian for the medium term...

Greets and thanks,
*t

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
hi  bsdmainutils                6.1.6        collection of more utilities from 
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.11       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.13.25      package maintenance system for Deb
hi  groff-base                  1.18.1.1-12  GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgdbm3                    1.8.3-3      GNU dbm database routines (runtime

man-db recommends no packages.

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