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and subject line Bug#713992: fixed in man-db 2.6.6-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #713992,
regarding /usr/bin/whatis: confusing man page for whatis
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Package: man-db
Version: 2.6.3-7
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/whatis
Dear Maintainer,
I think the man page description for the whatis command is a little bit
ambiguous.
The short descriptin in the NAME section
whatis - display manual page descriptions
could also mean that it displays the descriptions in the DESCRIPTION section.
It would be better to write something like this
whatis - display short man page name description
Greetings and thanks
jb
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 9.0.5
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50
ii dpkg 1.16.10
ii groff-base 1.22.2-3
ii libc6 2.17-5
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-12
ii libpipeline1 1.2.4-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii groff 1.22.2-3
ii iceweasel [www-browser] 17.0.6esr-1
ii less 458-2
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-8
-- debconf information:
man-db/install-setuid: false
man-db/auto-update: true
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: man-db
Source-Version: 2.6.6-1
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.
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.
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pp.
Colin Watson <[email protected]> (supplier of updated man-db package)
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:49:44 +0000
Source: man-db
Binary: man-db
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.6.6-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
Description:
man-db - on-line manual pager
Closes: 678670 684235 713992
Changes:
man-db (2.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream release:
- Reimplement 'apropos --and' in a way that works with the optimisations
introduced in 2.6.2 (closes: #678670).
- Clarify that whatis displays one-line descriptions, rather than e.g.
the contents of DESCRIPTION sections (closes: #713992).
- Downgrade EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK errors from attempts to open a database
read-write to debug messages (closes: #684235).
* Switch to git (thanks to reposurgeon for helping with the tricky
stitching involved); adjust Vcs-* fields.
* Policy version 3.9.5: no changes required.
* Set VERBOSE=1 when running tests so that Automake will print test logs
on failure.
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