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Re: Man Hates Less



On Tue, 7 May 2013 19:46:05 -0300
Draco Metallium(Rodrigo S. Cañibano) <draco.kun@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Draco,

> Last night I did a dist-upgrade of my wheezy debian, today I woke up
> without "less". I tried to install it via "apt-get install less" but it
> removes both man-db and debhelper.

Could you give the result of:
apt-cache policy
apt-cache policy less man-db debhelper

> 
> Does anyone know why is that? I am alone here?

That's  the reason:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706916

backslash handling in option string has changed in less-456, breaking man

> 
> Should I panic?

Not at all.
Never panic ;-)

> 
> Thank  a lot!
> 
> ---
> Draco Metallium.
-- 
Jean-Marc <jean-marc@6jf.be>

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