On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:06:42PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: > This bug appears to be caused by the installed apparmor profile for man-db > in buster. If you are the root user and/or /usr/bin/man has been > configured as setuid and there are cat? directories in /var/cache/man, > then man will try to write a cat page to those directories but will be > prevented by apparmor. > > The apparmor profile should be set so that the various filters like gzip > can write to /var/cache/man/**. This would stop the error from appearing > when logged in as root or /usr/bin/man configured as setuid.
Thanks for this analysis. I've committed a suitable change for my next upload. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
