Bug#99612: marked as done (tclx8.0.4-dev: Missing symlinks for some man pages)
Your message dated Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:06:32 -0500
with message-id <E169tvc-0001td-00@auric.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#99612: fixed in tclx8.0.4 8.0.4-3
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am
talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration
somewhere. Please contact me immediately.)
Debian bug tracking system administrator
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
--------------------------------------
Received: (at maintonly) by bugs.debian.org; 1 Jun 2001 18:16:21 +0000
>From cjwatson@auric.debian.org Fri Jun 01 13:16:21 2001
Return-path: <cjwatson@auric.debian.org>
Received: from murphy.debian.org [216.234.231.6]
by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian))
id 155tTB-0005jt-00; Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:16:21 -0500
Received: (qmail 8790 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2001 18:08:36 -0000
Received: from auric.debian.org (206.246.226.45)
by murphy.debian.org with SMTP; 1 Jun 2001 18:08:36 -0000
Received: from cjwatson by auric.debian.org with local (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian))
id 155tGm-0001zu-00; Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:03:32 -0400
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: tclx8.0.4-dev: Missing symlinks for some man pages
Message-Id: <E155tGm-0001zu-00@auric.debian.org>
Sender: Colin Watson <cjwatson@auric.debian.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:03:32 -0400
Delivered-To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Package: tclx8.0.4-dev
Severity: normal
Hi,
An upcoming release of Debian policy, version 3.5.5.0, contains an amendment
which clarifies the way man pages need to be installed.
Until now, packages could install /usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz with 'foo,
bar \- programs to do something' in the NAME section and have no
corresponding symbolic link from bar.1.gz (policy suggested using a symbolic
link, but wasn't clear that it's required), and our man program happened to
magically figure it out for itself and display the right man page when you
typed 'man bar'. However, guaranteeing that this would work even when you've
recently installed some new packages has a serious performance impact on
man, as it frequently has to go and look through the filesystem to update
its database.
Before woody's base system is frozen, I intend to remove this "feature" from
man-db, so that its performance is consistent and acceptable for a
reasonable number of people. It isn't a standard feature even among the
various man page browsers in Debian, let alone in other Linux distributions,
so there should be no compatibility problems. However, your package seems to
rely on it, so this bug is being filed to let you know that the way some of
your man pages are installed needs to be improved in order to work properly
in woody. All you need to do, if you already have, say, foo(1) and expect
bar(1) to work as well, is install a symbolic link to foo.1.gz as bar.1.gz
(.so links and hard links are also OK, though symlinks are recommended).
Here's a list of man pages and the names that don't appear anywhere in the
filesystem:
usr/share/man/man3/Tcl_HandleTblInit.3tclx.gz: Tcl_HandleTblUseCount Tcl_HandleWalk
If the list looks odd, please check man(7) to see if the man page is
formatted properly. This output was generated by way of mandb, so if it's
confused then users will be too; if it turns out that it's done the wrong
thing, please reassign this bug to man-db so that I can fix it. I might not
have caught symlinks that are created in the postinst (say, using
alternatives); if that's the case, please close this bug.
Please see bug #94995 and policy 3.5.5 section 13.1 for more information,
and feel free to contact me if you need help.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson, via a script
---------------------------------------
Received: (at 99612-close) by bugs.debian.org; 30 Nov 2001 20:07:48 +0000
>From troup@auric.debian.org Fri Nov 30 14:07:48 2001
Return-path: <troup@auric.debian.org>
Received: from auric.debian.org [206.246.226.45] (mail)
by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian))
id 169twq-0002Y1-00; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 14:07:48 -0600
Received: from troup by auric.debian.org with local (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian))
id 169tvc-0001td-00; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:06:32 -0500
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: 99612-close@bugs.debian.org
X-Katie: $Revision: 1.66 $
Subject: Bug#99612: fixed in tclx8.0.4 8.0.4-3
Message-Id: <E169tvc-0001td-00@auric.debian.org>
Sender: James Troup <troup@auric.debian.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:06:32 -0500
Delivered-To: 99612-close@bugs.debian.org
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tclx8.0.4, which has been installed in the Debian FTP archive:
tclx8.0.4-dev_8.0.4-3_i386.deb
to pool/main/t/tclx8.0.4/tclx8.0.4-dev_8.0.4-3_i386.deb
tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3.diff.gz
to pool/main/t/tclx8.0.4/tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3.diff.gz
tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3.dsc
to pool/main/t/tclx8.0.4/tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3.dsc
tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3_i386.deb
to pool/main/t/tclx8.0.4/tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 99612@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated tclx8.0.4 package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:29:55 +0000
Source: tclx8.0.4
Binary: tclx8.0.4 tclx8.0.4-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 8.0.4-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Description:
tclx8.0.4 - Extended Tcl (TclX) version 8.0.4 -- runtime package
tclx8.0.4-dev - Extended Tcl (TclX) version 8.0.4 -- development package
Closes: 99612
Changes:
tclx8.0.4 (8.0.4-3) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Change maintainer address to packages@qa.debian.org.
* doc/Handles.3: Add missing comma to NAME section (closes: #99612).
* Use a versioned debhelper build-dependency rather than dh_testversion.
* debian/tclx8.0.4.postinst: Call ldconfig only when $1 = configure.
* debian/tclx8.0.4.postrm: Call ldconfig when $1 = remove.
Files:
6edf9f02e32af3ae329f7416df30499b 646 interpreters optional tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3.dsc
cfdce8d8edfb6ca0f3ae342cd82023da 4190 interpreters optional tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3.diff.gz
28135a447bcc02e31c90cf7caea6df7c 485170 interpreters optional tclx8.0.4_8.0.4-3_i386.deb
02f87bf0dbc7f13378c8c723c3385489 145172 devel optional tclx8.0.4-dev_8.0.4-3_i386.deb
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iD8DBQE8B8M89t0zAhD6TNERAnz+AJ9b3vyp5nrjNvCKJNy0eBxRv84f0wCfZXxt
tkBD1Kc9yRzI4kBoFIByebI=
=bGtc
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: