Bug#90331: general: man 'program' on clean inst of deb gives all errors of dangling symlinks.

[Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 at 20:25:02 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> from the secret journal of Colin Watson (cjw44@flatline.org.uk):
> > Only the maintainers of the packages in question can (respectively,
> > mysql-server and libqt2-dev). Dangling symlinks are usually a bug. I
> > have some stuff in the works to try to stop man rescanning quite so
> > much, though.
> 
> i read something on debian-devel a few weeks ago about someone packaging a
> different man package for debian. we currently use a different on from all
> other linux distributions. is that still a priority?

I understand SuSE and possibly Caldera use the same man package we do,
actually. I've been vaguely contemplating packaging Andries Brouwer's
man, but I don't think it's a very high priority; I believe ours is
fixable, and would rather see effort go into that. Depending on
performance, I'm about half-tempted to drop all cat pages except
possibly those that are created overnight, which would eliminate the
nasty security concerns.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]