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Bug#99580: marked as done (ivtools-dev: Missing symlinks for some man pages)

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and subject line Package ivtools has been removed from Debian
has caused the Debian Bug report #99580,
regarding ivtools-dev: Missing symlinks for some man pages
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Package: ivtools-dev
Severity: normal

Hi,

An upcoming release of Debian policy, version 3.5.5.0, contains an amendment
which clarifies the way man pages need to be installed.

Until now, packages could install /usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz with 'foo,
bar \- programs to do something' in the NAME section and have no
corresponding symbolic link from bar.1.gz (policy suggested using a symbolic
link, but wasn't clear that it's required), and our man program happened to
magically figure it out for itself and display the right man page when you
typed 'man bar'. However, guaranteeing that this would work even when you've
recently installed some new packages has a serious performance impact on
man, as it frequently has to go and look through the filesystem to update
its database.

Before woody's base system is frozen, I intend to remove this "feature" from
man-db, so that its performance is consistent and acceptable for a
reasonable number of people. It isn't a standard feature even among the
various man page browsers in Debian, let alone in other Linux distributions,
so there should be no compatibility problems. However, your package seems to
rely on it, so this bug is being filed to let you know that the way some of
your man pages are installed needs to be improved in order to work properly
in woody. All you need to do, if you already have, say, foo(1) and expect
bar(1) to work as well, is install a symbolic link to foo.1.gz as bar.1.gz
(.so links and hard links are also OK, though symlinks are recommended).

Here's a list of man pages and the names that don't appear anywhere in the
filesystem:

  usr/X11R6/man/man3/BasicDialog.3.gz: AcknowledgeDialog
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/BasicDialog.3.gz: ConfirmDialog
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/BasicDialog.3.gz: GridDialog
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/BasicDialog.3.gz: PrintDialog
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/BasicDialog.3.gz: UChooser
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Border.3.gz: HBorder
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Border.3.gz: VBorder
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Box2_6.3.gz: Box
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Box2_6.3.gz: HBox
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Box2_6.3.gz: VBox
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Button2_6.3.gz: Button
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Button2_6.3.gz: ButtonState
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Button2_6.3.gz: CheckBox
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Button2_6.3.gz: PushButton
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Button2_6.3.gz: RadioButton
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Button2_6.3.gz: TextButton
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Connector.3.gz: ConnectorView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Control.3.gz: ControlState
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/EllipseComp.3.gz: EllipseView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/EllipseComp.3.gz: PSEllipse
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ExternView.3.gz: InorderView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ExternView.3.gz: PostorderView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ExternView.3.gz: PreorderView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Frame.3.gz: BorderFrame
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Frame.3.gz: MarginFrame
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Frame.3.gz: ShadowFrame
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Frame.3.gz: ShowFrame
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Frame.3.gz: TitleFrame
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Glue2_6.3.gz: Glue
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Glue2_6.3.gz: HGlue
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Glue2_6.3.gz: VGlue
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Graphic.3.gz: FullGraphic
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/GraphicComp.3.gz: GraphicComps
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/GraphicView.3.gz: GraphicViews
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/LineComp.3.gz: LineView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/LineComp.3.gz: MultiLineComp
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/LineComp.3.gz: MultiLineView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/LineComp.3.gz: PSLine
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/LineComp.3.gz: PSMultiLine
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/LinkComp.3.gz: LinkView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/LinkComp.3.gz: PSLink
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Menu2_6.3.gz: Menu
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Menu2_6.3.gz: MenuBar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Menu2_6.3.gz: MenuItem
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Menu2_6.3.gz: PopupMenu
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Menu2_6.3.gz: PulldownMenu
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Menu2_6.3.gz: PullrightMenu
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PadComp.3.gz: PSPad
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PadComp.3.gz: PadGraphic
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PadComp.3.gz: PadView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PinComp.3.gz: PSPin
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PinComp.3.gz: PinGraphic
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PinComp.3.gz: PinView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PolygonComp.3.gz: PSPolygon
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PolygonComp.3.gz: PolygonView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/PostScriptView.3.gz: PostScriptViews
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/RasterComp.3.gz: PSRaster
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/RasterComp.3.gz: RasterView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/RectComp.3.gz: PSRect
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/RectComp.3.gz: RectView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Scene.3.gz: MonoScene
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Scroller.3.gz: HScroller
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/Scroller.3.gz: VScroller
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SlotComp.3.gz: HSlotComp
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SlotComp.3.gz: HSlotView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SlotComp.3.gz: PSSlot
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SlotComp.3.gz: SlotGraphic
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SlotComp.3.gz: SlotView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SlotComp.3.gz: VSlotComp
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SlotComp.3.gz: VSlotView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SplineComp.3.gz: ClosedSplineComp
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SplineComp.3.gz: ClosedSplineView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SplineComp.3.gz: PSClosedSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SplineComp.3.gz: PSSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/SplineComp.3.gz: SplineView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/StencilComp.3.gz: PSStencil
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/StencilComp.3.gz: StencilView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/TextComp.3.gz: PSText
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/TextComp.3.gz: TextGraphic
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/TextComp.3.gz: TextView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/UControl.3.gz: UControlInteractor
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/UHashTable.3.gz: UHashElem
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/VerticesComp.3.gz: PSVertices
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/VerticesComp.3.gz: VerticesView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/align.3.gz: AlignCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/align.3.gz: AlignToGridCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/catcmds.3.gz: NewCompCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/catcmds.3.gz: PrintCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/catcmds.3.gz: QuitCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/catcmds.3.gz: RevertCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/catcmds.3.gz: SaveCompAsCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/catcmds.3.gz: SaveCompCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/catcmds.3.gz: ViewCompCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/datas.3.gz: ColorData
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/datas.3.gz: GSData
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/datas.3.gz: MobilityData
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/datas.3.gz: MoveData
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/datas.3.gz: VoidData
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: ConnectCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: CopyCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: CutCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: DeleteCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: DupCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: MobilityCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: PasteCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: RedoCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: ReplaceCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: SlctAllCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/edit.3.gz: UndoCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ellipses.3.gz: Ellipse
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ellipses.3.gz: F_Circle
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ellipses.3.gz: F_Ellipse
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ellipses.3.gz: SF_Circle
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ellipses.3.gz: SF_Ellipse
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ellipses.3.gz: S_Circle
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/ellipses.3.gz: S_Ellipse
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/geomobjs.3.gz: BoxObj
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/geomobjs.3.gz: Extent
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/geomobjs.3.gz: FillPolygonObj
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/geomobjs.3.gz: LineObj
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/geomobjs.3.gz: MultiLineObj
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/geomobjs.3.gz: PointObj
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/iostreamb.3.gz: istreamb
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/iostreamb.3.gz: ostreamb
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/lines.3.gz: Line
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/lines.3.gz: MultiLine
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/lines.3.gz: Point
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/lines.3.gz: SF_MultiLine
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/lines.3.gz: S_MultiLine
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/manips.3.gz: ConnectManip
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/manips.3.gz: DragManip
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/manips.3.gz: ManipGroup
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/manips.3.gz: TextManip
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/manips.3.gz: VertexManip
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/polygons.3.gz: F_Polygon
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/polygons.3.gz: F_Rect
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/polygons.3.gz: Polygon
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/polygons.3.gz: Rect
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/polygons.3.gz: SF_Polygon
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/polygons.3.gz: SF_Rect
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/polygons.3.gz: S_Polygon
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/polygons.3.gz: S_Rect
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/pspaint.3.gz: PSBrush
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/pspaint.3.gz: PSColor
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/pspaint.3.gz: PSFont
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/pspaint.3.gz: PSPattern
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: ClosedBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: F_ClosedBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: F_OpenBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: OpenBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: SFH_ClosedBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: SFH_OpenBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: SF_ClosedBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: SF_OpenBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: S_ClosedBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/splines.3.gz: S_OpenBSpline
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: BrushVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: ColorVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: CompNameVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: FontVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: GravityVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: MagnifVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: ModifStatusVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: NameVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/statevars.3.gz: PatternVar
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: BrushVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: CompNameVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: FileNameVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: FontVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: GravityVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: MagnifVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: ModifStatusVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: NameVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/stateviews.3.gz: PatternVarView
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/struct.3.gz: BackCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/struct.3.gz: FrontCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/struct.3.gz: GroupCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/struct.3.gz: UngroupCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/transfns.3.gz: TF_2Port
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/transfns.3.gz: TF_Direct
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/transforms.3.gz: MoveCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/transforms.3.gz: RotateCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/transforms.3.gz: ScaleCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/uctrls.3.gz: CommandControl
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/uctrls.3.gz: CommandInteractor
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/uctrls.3.gz: HPanelControl
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/uctrls.3.gz: PanelControl
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/uctrls.3.gz: PanelInteractor
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/uctrls.3.gz: VPanelControl
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/viewcmds.3.gz: CenterCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/viewcmds.3.gz: CloseEditorCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/viewcmds.3.gz: GravityCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/viewcmds.3.gz: GridCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/viewcmds.3.gz: GridSpacingCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/viewcmds.3.gz: NormSizeCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/viewcmds.3.gz: OrientationCmd
  usr/X11R6/man/man3/viewcmds.3.gz: RedToFitCmd

If the list looks odd, please check man(7) to see if the man page is
formatted properly. This output was generated by way of mandb, so if it's
confused then users will be too; if it turns out that it's done the wrong
thing, please reassign this bug to man-db so that I can fix it. I might not
have caught symlinks that are created in the postinst (say, using
alternatives); if that's the case, please close this bug.

Please see bug #94995 and policy 3.5.5 section 13.1 for more information,
and feel free to contact me if you need help.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson, via a script

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Version: 1.2.6-1+nmu3+rm

You filed the bug http://bugs.debian.org/99580 in Debian BTS
against the package ivtools. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/595612. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

--
Luca Falavigna

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