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Subject: Re: Patch against man-db-2.4.1-13 to make "man -k" work on my system
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:01:45AM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> I had a problem with man-db-2.4.1-13 (and some earlier versions, too)
> that the commandline
>
> > man -k <whatever>
>
> always returned:
>
> apropos: invalid option -- P
>
> This happens because man seems to pass the pager option (-P) on to the
> apropos binary. However, even though apropos ignores some commandline
> parameters which might get passed by man, it does not ignore the "-P
> <program>" option. The attached diff fixes the whatis.c source file
> (which is used to build the apropos binary) so that it ignores the -P
> switch.
This is certainly a real problem, but I'm not comfortable with the
approach taken by this patch. At the moment, man's entire command line
is passed through to apropos and to whatis. However, there are many
options besides -P which are valid to man but not to apropos or whatis.
The correct approach is for man to pass through only options known to be
valid rather than for apropos and whatis to exclude those that aren't.
I'm going to defer doing this for a little while, because I'm just in
the middle of overhauling the way all man-db programs call external
commands. Once I'm finished with that, doing this correctly will be a
great deal easier and much less error-prone. I'm filing a Debian bug
report with this message so that I don't forget.
> You might want to integrate this diff into the debian package source
> and perhaps pass the patch on to the upstream maintainer.
I *am* the upstream maintainer. :-)
Cheers,
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Subject: Bug#207436: fixed in man-db 2.4.3-1
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Source: man-db
Source-Version: 2.4.3-1
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_2.4.3-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.3-1.diff.gz
man-db_2.4.3-1.dsc
to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.3-1.dsc
man-db_2.4.3-1_powerpc.deb
to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.3-1_powerpc.deb
man-db_2.4.3.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.4.3.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:27:05 +0100
Source: man-db
Binary: man-db
Architecture: source powerpc
Version: 2.4.3-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
man-db - The on-line manual pager
Closes: 129575 207436 218407 241387 245057 256279 268584 275562
Changes:
man-db (2.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release.
- Make most calls to external programs directly rather than going via
the shell.
- When stdout is not a terminal, man pages will be formatted in plain
text without the use of backspace or ANSI formatting characters.
- Try harder to find somewhere to store cat pages for symlinked man
pages (closes: #129575).
- When invoking apropos (man -k) or whatis (man -f) as external
programs, man now only passes through command-line options understood
by the respective programs (closes: #207436).
- Drop versions and/or modifiers from locale names before deciding how
to handle them (closes: #241387).
- Fix portable shell issues in mkcatdirs (closes: #256279).
- Terminate NAME section parsing on encountering a macro definition
(closes: #275562).
- Add -s/--section option to apropos and whatis (closes: #218407).
- Update Polish translation (thanks, Robert Luberda; closes: #245057).
- Update Russian translation (thanks, Yuri Kozlov; closes: #268584).
* Policy version 3.6.2: no changes required.
Files:
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30814a47f209f43b152659ba51fc7937 816545 doc important man-db_2.4.3.orig.tar.gz
7d550ab7461ad2b65d6394371086f114 72545 doc important man-db_2.4.3-1.diff.gz
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man-db_2.4.3-1_powerpc.deb
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