tags 391977 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:47:30PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> man latches on to 'lib*' as a section name (*** below), even though
> this is unlisted on the table on the man man page, where only
> numerical sections are mentioned.
>
> # man -w hal nethogs cdck cedilla remote-tty advancecomp \
> edos-debcheck gpscorrelate libmail-box-perl glibc-doc-reference \
> phpmyadmin mailman
> No manual entry for hal
> /usr/share/man/man8/nethogs.8.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/cdck.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/cedilla.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/remote-tty.1.gz
> No manual entry for advancecomp
> /usr/share/man/man1/edos-debcheck.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/gpscorrelate.1.gz
> No manual entry for glibc-doc-reference in section libmail-box-perl ***
> No manual entry for phpmyadmin in section libmail-box-perl ***
> No manual entry for mailman in section libmail-box-perl ***
>
> strace shows open() on e.g., /usr/share/man/manlibmail-box-perl
>
> I must do this to see what I want:
>
> # man -w libmail-box-perl; man -w hal nethogs cdck cedilla remote-tty \
> advancecomp edos-debcheck gpscorrelate glibc-doc-reference \
> phpmyadmin mailman
Thanks; this was due to overenthusiastic interpretation of
"libmail-box-perl" as an extended section (since 'l' happens to be a
section for historical reasons). I've fixed this upstream:
Sun Aug 26 15:08:45 BST 2007 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* src/man.c (is_section): Disallow sectional extensions of
alphabetic sections, e.g. n and l from the default configuration
(Debian bug #391977). Also disallow sectional extensions beginning
with a digit (Debian bug #421481).
As noted, this also does a better job of fixing bug #421481:
$ man 8139too
No manual entry for 8139too
Regards,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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