Re: man page errors

[Andrew Nesbit <andrew.nesbit@csiro.au>]

Colin Watson wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:30:24PM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote:
>
> > Whenever I try to view manpages that don't exist on my system, I get the 
> > following error:
> >
> > man: can't open /usr/X11R6/man/man1/bitmap.1x: No such file or directory
> > man: warning: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/atobm.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
> >
> > and then I have to press ^C get back to the prompt, at which point I 
> > also get:
> >
> > man: can't remove /tmp/zmanBrjbA6: No such file or directory
>
> Yeah, man-db in potato was pretty broken in a number of ways.
Since upgrading, this problem has gone away, and things are much smoother.

> man-db in woody won't do this. Maybe I should produce a version
> backported to potato?

Hmm, could be an idea. I think the main motivation for this should be 
that Potato is supposed to be the rock-solid version, and so one would 
expect everything to function without these sorts of glitches.

OTOH, with a stable Woody release just around the corner, this mightn't 
so necessary.

-Andrew