Package: man-db
Version: 2.7.5-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

man -K searches the nroff source, not the formatted manpages. Because of that 
"man -K california" gives a lot of hits (for commands like more, rev, whereis, 
...) whose manpages don't contain the string "california" (it is contained in 
comments in the nroff source). This problematic behavior is not described in 
man(1).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii  bsdmainutils           9.0.6
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
ii  dpkg                   1.17.25
ii  groff-base             1.22.2-8
ii  libc6                  2.19-18
ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-13.1
ii  libpipeline1           1.4.0-1
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

man-db recommends no packages.

Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii  elinks [www-browser]     0.12~pre6-5+b2
ii  groff                    1.22.2-8
ii  iceweasel [www-browser]  38.4.0esr-1~deb8u1
ii  less                     458-3
ii  lynx-cur [www-browser]   2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1
ii  w3m [www-browser]        0.5.3-19

-- debconf information excluded

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