Re: Uploaded man-db 2.3.10-61 (source i386) for unstable
On Fri, Feb 27, 1998 at 07:29:52PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 1998 fpolacco@icenet.fi wrote:
>
> > * 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 :-)
>
> I don't like this solution. The util-linux package is Essential and
> installs `more', so this pager is always available. If you want to get
> sure /usr/bin/pager is available, you could depend on the appropriate
> version of the util-linux package.
>
Humm, you are right; in fact the depends would anyway force the upgrade
of just util-linux ...
... but thinking better neither is the right solution.
In fact what I needed was a solution thet could work also on bo, and I
know that none of those pagers is available in bo-unstable.
fab
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