Re: man-db confused by X man page relocation

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

"Edward C. Jones" <edcjones@comcast.net> wrote:

> I use a PC with a AMD Athlon64 3500+ chip and up-to-date Debian unstable 
> i386 port.
> 
> Each day I get an email from cron that says:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/man-db:
> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapinfo.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF 
> .so' request
> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/bitmap.1x: No such file or directory
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/bmtoa.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF 
> .so' request
> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/bitmap.1x: No such file or directory
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/atobm.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF 
> .so' request
> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapin.1x.gz: bad symlink or ROFF 
> .so' request
> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory
> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/xtrapproto.1x.gz: bad symlink or 
> ROFF .so' request
> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1x/xtrap.1x: No such file or directory
> 
> These manpages have been relocated from "/usr/share/man/man1x" to 
> "/usr/share/man/man1". For example the xtrap man page is now at 
> "/usr/share/man/man1/xtrap.1x.gz".
> 
> This is clearly a bug. But I don't have a clue which package the bug 
> belongs with.

AFAIK the package is xbase-clients and the bug is already reported

Andrei
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