Re: strange man behavior
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 fpolacco@icenet.fi wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 05:46:23PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > I know that I am running a patchwork quilt of a stitched together system,
> > but often when I try to man something, I get a large quantity of the
> > following:
> >
> > man: warning: /usr/man/man7/undocumented.7.gz is a dangling symlink
> >
> > Now, undocumented.7.gz is provided by the manpages package, but man-db
> > doesn't even suggest manpages.
> >
> > I would suggest that man-db should recommend manpages, or at the very
> > least suggest it.
> >
>
> This already came out on 1 March.
> man-db is not the only man-browser available (tkman, xman, man2html ...),
> it's not marked essential, and has no connection with that manpage.
>
> Several packages install symlink to that page, so we have only two options:
> 1) make each of those packages depend on manpages,
> 2) move the undocumented.?.gz page to an essential package.
>
> I vote for the latter, and suggest to move the page in debianutils (as
> it is debian specific).
>
It seems reasonable, in any case, for man page browsers to
suggest/recommend manpages. Nothing you have said obstructs such help for
the end user.
Waiting is,
Dwarf
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