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--- Begin Message ---Package: man-db Version: 2.4.3-3 Severity: normal Hi, "man apropos" doesn't say anything about how the keyword database works, which can lead to confusion. For example: # apt-get install netpbm # apropos pbm pbm: nothing appropriate (darn, netpbm has no docs! or maybe I need to update a man database?) # man apropos DESCRIPTION Each manual page has a short description available within it. apropos searches the descriptions for instances of keyword. (Hmm, doesn't say anything about a database that needs to be updated...) I suggest that the DESCRIPTION section in the apropos page makes a brief mention of the existence of the database, e.g. Each manual page has a short description available within it. apropos searches a database of these descriptions for instances of keyword. keyword is usually... The standard... The database that apropos searches is updated by the man-db program, which may be run by a periodic cron job, or manually after new man pages have been installed. It should also refer to man-db in its SEE ALSO section. Or something like that. It just needs a bit of a clue; I had imagined that post-inst scripts automatically updated the apropos database after installing man pages and only realised that this wasn't the case when I installed netpbm. Regards, Phil. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.1.3 collection of more utilities from ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.72 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for Deb ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-11 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime man-db recommends no packages. -- debconf information: man-db/build-database: true man-db/rebuild-database: true * man-db/install-setuid: true
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--- Begin Message ---Source: man-db Source-Version: 2.4.4-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of man-db, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: man-db_2.4.4-1.diff.gz to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.4-1.diff.gz man-db_2.4.4-1.dsc to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.4-1.dsc man-db_2.4.4-1_powerpc.deb to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.4-1_powerpc.deb man-db_2.4.4.orig.tar.gz to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.4.orig.tar.gz A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated man-db package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:45:53 +0000 Source: man-db Binary: man-db Architecture: source powerpc Version: 2.4.4-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: man-db - The on-line manual pager Closes: 317696 320111 327772 338991 340910 341706 342834 349208 353959 353959 360112 368749 378781 387864 388755 Changes: man-db (2.4.4-1) experimental; urgency=low . * New upstream release. - Drop "Reformatting %s, please wait..." message (LP: #18786, closes: #378781). - Fix "gditview" typo (closes: #317696). - Avoid splitting up a sentence into two translatable pieces (closes: #320111). - Add Russian translation of NAME (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; closes: #338991). - Fix mistaken use of .l instead of .I (thanks, Valéry Perrin; closes: #349208). - Add Danish translation of NAME (thanks, Henning Makholm; closes: #353959). - Skip "exec" at the start of a command, to make old configuration files work (closes: #353959). - Ignore SIGPIPE in child processes (closes: #387864). - Fail with an error message if argv is a character or block device, as we may well hang trying to read from it and it almost certainly isn't what the caller intended anyway (closes: #341706). - Teach lexgrog front-end about pages with multiple name/description pairs (closes: #342834). - Fix a slew of memory leaks, including a nasty per-search leak in apropos (closes: #368749). - Add cross-references to mandb in apropos and whatis documentation (thanks, Phil Endecott; closes: #388755). - Document man -X option (thanks, Sam Morris; closes: #360112). - Don't try to pass -X or -P-g options to eqn, only troff (closes: #327772). - Stop claiming that -d does not display any manual pages (thanks, Dan Jacobson; closes: #340910). * Policy version 3.7.2: no changes required. Files: a0980bf88d1607575f4389ef58d6ea9e 594 doc important man-db_2.4.4-1.dsc 9d7952de1aeb9121497a8204c59c56d7 898364 doc important man-db_2.4.4.orig.tar.gz 3600385bac88c06dbd77e9c4b94154d3 77407 doc important man-db_2.4.4-1.diff.gz 74df101d9c8bf8dc18116cb469cbdb2c 755404 doc important man-db_2.4.4-1_powerpc.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF0GM49t0zAhD6TNERAjo1AJ9S/8d2K6qepVgZogUBV8kudDxiJQCeO5NM WHBMROcxuH1gU/su8AY7HP0= =iuPM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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