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Re: https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/uscan



On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 06:22:18PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > >> The URL https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/uscan gives me a 403 error.
> > > https://manpages.debian.org/ gives me "The service you have requested is
> > > currently disabled."
> > > Googling for "manpages.debian.org" gives me
> > > https://wiki.debian.org/manpages.debian.org which says "The current
> > > manpages.debian.org service has been disabled by Teams/DSA because of
> > > performance issues.".
> > 
> > Also see https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi?host=glinka
> 
> Which says
> |   purposes of this server:
> |       archive.debian.org - historical debian releases
> |       bugs-search.debian.org
> |       cdimage-search.debian.org
> |       manpages.debian.org - disabled because it breaks the host and we are waiting on the maintainer to move it to a new host
> |       mirror-master.debian.org
> |       misc services
> 
> So it is a known issue.
> 
> And the blocking issue seems to be "manpages group access and dependencies
> install". Which seems to be documented at RT#6485.
> 
> I did visit https://rt.debian.org/   
> Needed another websearch.
> Found https://wiki.debian.org/rt.debian.org 
I don't think you need to do all of that just to read uscan(1), it's
available in the package. Certainly if you need to use uscan you need to
install it, installing the manpage in the process?

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