Re: Uploaded man-db 2.3.10-61 (source i386) for unstable
On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 01:40:24AM -0500, Adam P. Harris wrote:
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> "fpolacco" == fpolacco <fpolacco@icenet.fi> writes:
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> > * To avoid the error "pager: No such file" when a newer man is used
> > without upgrading any of the pagers in the system, I have added a
> > bogus pager "/usr/sbin/man-pager", which points to /bin/more,
> > installed through update-alternatives with a weight very light (1).
> > Probably the Right-Thing-To-Do (TM) is to add a VP "pager" and ask
> > all pager installing /usr/bin/pager to Provide: it (at least
> > util-linux). Later man-db could Depends: on it :-)
>
> Um, we already have that.
>
> > dpkg --search /usr/bin/sensible-pager
> debianutils: /usr/bin/sensible-pager
>
> Cf. Debian Policy Section 4.3.
>
Uhmm, no ... the problem was a problem in sincronization. Since this use
of update-alternatives to insatll the pager is a recent thing, some
people upgrade man-db without upgrading any other pager, so they didn't
have _any_ pager installed using update-alternatives.
In that case (and only in that case) I install /bin/more using
update-alternatives, but I cannot do this directly so I use a symlink.
sensible-pager is a wrap that checks the environment, and this is
already inside of man (we were talking about the behaviour in case any
other method wasn't in use: PAGER env var, -P option, /usr/bin/pager)
fab
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