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Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.2-21
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/apropos

On my system, there are tons of these:
$ apropos .|grep unknown\ subject|wc -l
205
e.g.,
$ apropos Gnome2::VFS::URI
Gnome2::VFS::URI (3pm) - (unknown subject)
The largest groups are
$ apropos .|grep unknown\ subject|colrm 6|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|tail
      4 libgg
      5 XML::
      5 bg5sg
      5 gbsgm
      9 filte
     10 Glib:
     12 displ
     12 input
     14 Font:
     81 Gnome


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On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:17:15AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> On my system, there are tons of these:
> $ apropos .|grep unknown\ subject|wc -l
> 205
> e.g.,
> $ apropos Gnome2::VFS::URI
> Gnome2::VFS::URI (3pm) - (unknown subject)

Gnome2::VFS::URI really doesn't have a description:

  .SH "NAME"
  Gnome2::VFS::URI

This is obvious from looking at the formatted manual page:

NAME
       Gnome2::VFS::URI

(no following dash and no description)

> The largest groups are
> $ apropos .|grep unknown\ subject|colrm 6|sort|uniq -c|sort -n|tail
>       4 libgg
>       5 XML::
>       5 bg5sg
>       5 gbsgm
>       9 filte
>      10 Glib:
>      12 displ
>      12 input
>      14 Font:
>      81 Gnome

This isn't enough information for me to investigate, so I can only close
this bug. In cases where it's utterly obvious that there's no
description, as above, your first port of call should be the maintainers
of the respective packages.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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