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Bug#1005836: Suboptimal choice of package in case of duplicated manpages



Package: manpages.debian.org
Severity: minor

On Ma, 15 feb 22, 19:38:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 15 feb 22, 11:59:59, David wrote:
> > 
> > A minor typo correction for the avoidance of doubt for any readers ...
> > 
> > To "change that" you would use the --boot-directory
> > parameter of 'grub-install' command, see 'man 8 grub-install'.
> > 
> > ie "--boot-directory" not "--root-directory"
>  
> Ugh, I used manpages.debian.org to look it up and didn't notice it 
> opened grub-install(8) from grub-legacy instead of grub2-common.
> 
> Apologies for any confusion.

Dear Maintainer,

When manpages with the same name exist in different packages would it be 
possible to come up with some algorithm to get better defaults?

For interfaces(5) the first choice is ifupdown (maybe because it's 
higher priority than ifupdown2?), but for grub-install(8) the first 
choice is grub-legacy instead of grub2-common (they have the same 
priority).

Maybe Replaces: grub-legacy in grub2-common could be a hint?

If there is a list somewhere with all duplicated manpages I can try to 
look for (other) patterns.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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