Bug#24951: man pages unreadable due to bad symlinks
Package: general
Version: 2.0
Severity: wishlist
Package: sysutils
Version: 1.3.2
Package: jdk1.1-dev
Version: 1.1.5v5-1
Package: jdk1.1-runtime
Version: 1.1.5v5-1
Package: man-db
Version: 2.3.10-65
Severity: NO BUG
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This is a Debian packaging problem, present in several packages.
More packages than listed may be affected, I do not have the
resources to test beyond the packages on my system.
man-db is not at fault, I am listing it only for reference.
This may be a candidate for automatic testing, a typical test
would go (in each man directory)
ls -l *.? | grep "\.gz"
The following man pages are all unreadable because they are
being installed as symlinks that don't end in gz which point to
files which *do* end in gz. This fools man into not decompressing
them before showing them, which isn't human readable.
To fix the problem do something like
mv unix2dos.1 unix2dos.1.gz
in the appropriate part of your package building environment.
The affected man pages are:
Package:
appletviewer-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
dos2unix.1 -> fromdos.1.gz sysutils
jar-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
java_g-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javac-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javac_g-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javadoc-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javah-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javah_g-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javakey-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javap-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javaverify-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
javaverify_g-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
jdb-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
jre-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-runtime
jre_g-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
native2ascii-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
rmic-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
rmiregistry-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
serialver-jdk11.1 -> java-jdk11.1.gz jdk1.1-dev
todos.1 -> fromdos.1.gz sysutils
unix2dos.1 -> fromdos.1.gz sysutils
Steps to reproduce:
man unix2dos
v4fromdos.1VÛnÛ8}çWMGM¼@æ͹
etc. etc.
I am now using Debian 2.0 kernel 2.0.33 (compiled by me) libc-2.0.7.
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