Bug#2513: manpages package contains another packages man pages

[Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>]

Dale Scheetz writes:
>Andrew, it seems to me that these are not bugs. The manpages package
>provides manpages for many packages (even those you haven't
>installed).  This is useful for those who want the documentation
>without the features.  If this package is not installed, then it
>should be expected that each package will take care of it's own
>documentation. There doesn't seem to be any conflicts or clobbers
>associated with this proceedure so, what makes it a bug?

What happens when you remove just one of the packages that contains
the man page?  Does the man page go away or not?  It depends which
order they were installed in, AIUI...

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