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and subject line Bug#860920: fixed in debian-goodies 0.70
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regarding manpages.debian.org support (dman)
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Package: debian-goodies
Version: 0.69
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi!
We have been working hard on restoring the manpages.debian.org service
in the last months. It's now reliable and complete, yet you need a web
browser to use it.
The neat thing is: manpages.debian.org also ships actual manpages, so
it's possible to use it to get the actual manpage source and load it
locally. This idea first came up over Ubuntu's side as the "dman"
command. This command was never packaged - it is just available on the
manpages.ubuntu.com webpage.
Yet we want people to be able to use this directly right now. The
proper way to ship software is, of course, to use Debian
packages. Since this is just a small shell script, we didn't quite
know where to put it. There's man-db, but that's rather a beastly
thing and the proper thing to do there would be to just patch
/usr/bin/man to check online if the requested manpage is missing
locally. Unfortunately, man is written in C and that would mean a
significant change in that venerable software - easier to just keep
the shell script.
I noticed debian-goodies was already shipping with similar tools:
debman allows a user to browse manpages from an existing .deb or
download the missing .deb if necessary. dman takes a similar approach,
but offloads the extraction to the static manpages.debian.org mirror,
saving a lot of time. It also avoids a lot of guessing, because the
user doesn't need to know which package the manpage is in - the
manpages.debian.org redirector does that for you.
I've considered implementing this as an extension to debman, but it
seemed a little clunky: the functionality is completely orthogonal and
there is very little code reuse between the two programs, if maybe man
-l. :) So I figured it made sense to keep the program separate. In
time, maybe it can trickle down to Ubuntu and we can share a common
codebase there as well.
I have pushed my work in a feature branch on the git repository here:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/debian-goodies.git/log/?h=debiman-support
I haven't merged this directly in master because, even though this is
collab-maint, I didn't feel comfortable just doing a NMU of this
thing without first consulting you.
You can review the source code here:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/debian-goodies.git/tree/dman?h=debiman-support
The associated issue in the debiman project, which runs
manpages.debian.org, is here:
https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/57
Thank you for your consideration!
A.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64
(x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages debian-goodies depends on:
ii curl 7.52.1-4
ii dctrl-tools [grep-dctrl] 2.24-2+b1
ii dialog 1.3-20160828-2
ii perl 5.24.1-2
ii python3 3.5.3-1
ii whiptail 0.52.19-1+b1
Versions of packages debian-goodies recommends:
ii lsof 4.89+dfsg-0.1
Versions of packages debian-goodies suggests:
ii popularity-contest 1.64
ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1
ii zenity 3.22.0-1+b1
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: debian-goodies
Source-Version: 0.70
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-goodies, 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.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Axel Beckert <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debian-goodies package)
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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 01:22:31 +0200
Source: debian-goodies
Binary: debian-goodies
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.70
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Axel Beckert <[email protected]>
Description:
debian-goodies - Small toolbox-style utilities for Debian systems
Closes: 860920
Changes:
debian-goodies (0.70) experimental; urgency=low
.
[ Antoine Beaupré ]
* Add dman script from Ubuntu, modified to fetch pages directly from
manpages.debian.org, see https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/57
(Closes: #860920)
.
[ Axel Beckert ]
* Fix missing close statement in checkrestart. (c.f. #855554)
Thanks Emilio Pozuelo Monfort!
* Suggest lsb-release for new dman command.
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