[I only just noticed, on rediscovering the bug, that my original reply didn't go to the BTS; sorry.]
On 12 February 2013 23:18, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the meantime, it would possibly save me time going down a blind alley > if you could confirm whether /etc/cron.weekly/man-db is active on your > system, and that it does not use the -p or --no-purge options when > invoking mandb. Confirmed on both counts: /etc/cron.weekly/man-db is active on my system, and it doesn't seem to be invoked with either of those flags: # regenerate man database if [ -x /usr/bin/mandb ]; then # --pidfile /dev/null so it always starts; mandb isn't really a daemon, # but we want to start it like one. start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /dev/null \ --startas /usr/bin/mandb --oknodo --chuid man \ $iosched_idle \ -- --quiet fi My /var/cache/man/ locale subdirs all have a datestamp of Feb 12 03:58 UTC, as does the top-level index.db, and CACHEDIR.TAG is dated Mar 6 2012. (/etc/cron.daily/man-db also exists, and is similar except that it expunges old catman pages unread in a week (odd, should that not be in the cron.weekly script instead???) and runs mandb with --no-purge.
