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--- Begin Message ---Package: man-db Version: 2.4.2-17 Severity: normal (Haven't read all 50 bugs, just the subject lines, but I didn't see that this had been reported yet, so...) 'apropos' allows multiple keywords. It ORs them. So 'apropops n1 n2' finds strings with 'n1' OR 'n2'. Redundantly, it turns out. This works as expected: % apropos cd dvd | sort | uniq > /tmp/a1 # two keywords % apropos 'cd|dvd' | sort | uniq > /tmp/a2 # one regexp, '|'='OR' % diff /tmp/a[12] { no output -- the files are the same } ...but remove 'uniq' from the pipe and: % apropos cd dvd | sort | > /tmp/a1 % apropos 'cd|dvd' | sort | > /tmp/a2 % diff /tmp/a[12] 41d40 < cdlabelgen (1) - CD/DVD jewel case inserts and envelopes creator. Generates frontcards and traycards for CD cases, single-cd envelopes, DVD case inserts. 55d53 < cdrwtool (1) - perform various actions on a CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD-R ...it's redundant, '/tmp/a1' has duplicate lines. I suspect that as 'apropos' checks its keywords, it just adds on results of each search. A test of this: % apropos cd dvd > /tmp/b1 # regular % apropos cd > /tmp/b2 # do the first keyword % apropos dvd >> /tmp/b2 # add the second diff /tmp/b[12] { no output -- the files are the same } Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.0.14 collection of more utilities from ii debconf 1.4.29 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.22 Package maintenance system for Deb ii groff-base 1.18.1-15 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime -- 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: 2.5.0-1 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_2.5.0-1.diff.gz to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.0-1.diff.gz man-db_2.5.0-1.dsc to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.0-1.dsc man-db_2.5.0-1_i386.deb to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.0-1_i386.deb man-db_2.5.0.orig.tar.gz to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.0.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: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:38:25 +0100 Source: man-db Binary: man-db Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.5.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: man-db - on-line manual pager Closes: 18452 29448 165499 196642 259338 259340 281811 320108 334280 340673 348008 372939 378428 385651 391977 411220 411721 413349 421481 421481 430635 444187 Changes: man-db (2.5.0-1) unstable; urgency=low . * New upstream release. - Remove /usr/X11R6/man from MANDATORY_MANPATH (closes: #413349). - man now supports the MANPAGER environment variable, overriding PAGER. - Resolve ambiguous error message when asking for a nonexistent manual page that might also be a section name (closes: #421481). - MANSEC -> MANSECT in German man(1) and catman(8) (closes: #430635). - Truncate apropos/whatis output to the terminal width by default (closes: #411721). - lexgrog now ignores alleged manual page names containing spaces, as these usually indicate parsing errors or ill-formed NAME sections and they clutter up apropos output badly. - Discard stderr from formatting processes when outputting to a pager, to avoid visual corruption from any error messages (closes: #372939). - Disallow sectional extensions of alphabetic sections, e.g. n and l from the default configuration (closes: #391977), and sectional extensions beginning with a digit (closes: #421481). - Suppress warnings in --quiet mode (closes: #348008, #378428, #411220; also closes: #334280 since that suggestion is no longer relevant). - If MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING is set in the environment, don't strip formatting characters with col (closes: #340673). - Implement and use a decompression library. This allows cat pages to be saved in the background while the pager is active (closes: #18452) and operation with a read-only /tmp (closes: #165499). - Add a configuration file flag (NOCACHE) to disable cat page caching (closes: #196642). - Add output keys to a hashtable, and skip any that have already been seen (closes: #259338). - Execute system utilities by command name rather than by full path (closes: #385651). - Add apropos -a/--and option to display only items matching all keywords (closes: #259340). - Adjust Finnish translation of "No manual entry for %s" (closes: #320108). - Create and use databases for non-English manual hierarchies (closes: #29448, #281811). - Improve per-locale directory handling. Directories such as "fr.UTF-8" may be used for occasions when it is appropriate to specify the character set but not the country, and so a full locale name is inconvenient. - There is a new "manconv" program which can try multiple possible encodings for a file, thus allowing UTF-8 manual pages to be installed in any directory even without an explicit encoding declaration. - Don't escape the hierarchy path while globbing; it isn't necessary and it causes problems for paths containing metacharacters (closes: #444187). * Use new configure options for external programs rather than hardcoding them in configure.ac. * Remove code in debian/rules to fiddle manual page paths for Debian, since the default of $LL.UTF-8 is now reasonable. (An announcement/discussion about what other Debian packages should do will be forthcoming shortly.) * Build-depend on zlib1g-dev so that we use zlib rather than gzip to decompress gzipped manual pages. 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