Bug#24635: apt manpages are corrupt (have ^m's)
Watch as my fingers never leave my keyboard :-) You can try this exact
command too, to verify off of any generated build you happen to have,
instead of what you *think* you have in CVS... Note that the example
here is entirely pipelined, never touches a filesystem.
(As for being able to view the manpages: red herring, I think - I just
ran man (a day after installing apt) and now it tells me "updating
cache" and finds the page. So you're probably missing some postinst
step that informs man that the pages exist, or perhaps it is a bug in
man caching to aggressively... but the files still have ^M's :-)
% dpkg --fsys-tarfile /debian/x/apt_0.1.1.deb | tar -xOf - usr/man/man5/sources.list.5.gz | gunzip | cat --show-all | head
.\" $Id: sources.list.5,v 1.5 1998/06/16 15:17:24 branden Exp $^M$
.\" This manpage is copyright (C) 1998 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>.^M$
.\" ^M$
.\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify^M$
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as^M$
.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,^M$
.\" or (at your option) any later version.^M$
.\"^M$
.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but^M$
.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of^M$
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