Bug#666253: Please drop redundant cron jobs in favor of dpkg triggers

2012-04-03 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:11:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 01:54:31PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 08:33:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Nowadays there's 'man -K' too for that, although that doesn't rely on > > > the database. It should

Bug#666253: Please drop redundant cron jobs in favor of dpkg triggers

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 01:54:31PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 08:33:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Nowadays there's 'man -K' too for that, although that doesn't rely on > > the database. It should be very significantly faster than zgrep. > > Handy, but in general I

Bug#666253: Please drop redundant cron jobs in favor of dpkg triggers

2012-04-03 Thread Josh Triplett
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 08:33:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:29:05AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:59:40PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > (I more frequently tend to find myself using zgrep over the entire > > contents of all manpages, rathe

Bug#666253: Please drop redundant cron jobs in favor of dpkg triggers

2012-04-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:29:05AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:59:40PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > My main concern here is that I have no idea how many people are relying > > on apropos output for locally-installed (i.e. non-packaged) manual > > pages; removing the c

Bug#666253: Please drop redundant cron jobs in favor of dpkg triggers

2012-03-30 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:59:40PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 06:23:44PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > man-db has had dpkg triggers for almost four years. These triggers make > > the cron jobs entirely redundant. Please consider removing these cron > > jobs. > > My ma

Bug#666253: Please drop redundant cron jobs in favor of dpkg triggers

2012-03-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 06:23:44PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > man-db has had dpkg triggers for almost four years. These triggers make > the cron jobs entirely redundant. Please consider removing these cron > jobs. My main concern here is that I have no idea how many people are relying on apro

Bug#666253: Please drop redundant cron jobs in favor of dpkg triggers

2012-03-29 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: man-db Version: 2.6.1-1 Severity: normal File: /etc/cron.weekly/man-db man-db has had dpkg triggers for almost four years. These triggers make the cron jobs entirely redundant. Please consider removing these cron jobs. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheez