On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:59:33PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:44:34PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > There may actually be a problem with installing alternatives to > > > manpages. > > No, I shouldn't think so. Something has gone stupid in man's database or > its handling of that database, I think, which is very likely a bug. > Indeed, I don't think it should be touching the database at all here. > > Could somebody who can reproduce this bug (not me at the moment) please > (a) run 'man -d xterm' and (b) run 'accessdb | egrep > "(xterm|x-terminal-emulator)"'? Thanks.
Certainly. I shall send it to you separately to not burden all these good people with it. > This is also bug #204249, which I unfortunately hadn't had time to look > at until now, so I'm extending the already long Cc: list to include > that. OK. I shall trim the CC list to eliminate the people whose interest is in debhelper, not man ;-) -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
