Package: man-db
Version: 2.9.3-2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Seeing a line ending with "..." in the output of "man -k ...".
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
For example "man -k axfer":
* What was the outcome of this action?
axfer (1) - command-line sound recorder and player for sound devic...
axfer-list (1) - dump lists of available sound devices and nodes to tra...
axfer-transfer (1) - transferrer of audio data frame for sound devices and ...
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Lines without the "..." (or complete lines).
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(The same applies to other commands that output lines from the
database.)
Lines from the database should be output uncensored (untrimmed).
Each line is independent. (The output is not a "connected sum" of
lines (paragraph).)
Users should get all the information in each line.
If a user wants to trim lines he should do it himself or be given an
option to accomplish that.
(option -l): malfunctional "Name" sections should not be "hidden" by
default, but exposed so that they can be fixed as soon as possible.
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This all means that the option "-l" (--long) should be the default
operation.
Add an option to implement the current default length restriction.
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The longest line in my database is for "axfer" (package "alsa-utils").
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.8.7-1 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1),
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdextrautils 2.36-3
ii bsdmainutils 12.1.7
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74
ii dpkg 1.20.5
ii groff-base 1.22.4-5
ii libc6 2.31-3
ii libgdbm6 1.18.1-5.1
ii libpipeline1 1.5.3-1
ii libseccomp2 2.4.3-1+b1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
pn apparmor <none>
ii elinks [www-browser] 0.13.2-1
ii firefox-esr [www-browser] 78.2.0esr-1
ii groff 1.22.4-5
ii less 551-2
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.0dev.5-1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-38+b1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/manpath.config changed [not included]
-- debconf information excluded
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Bjarni I. Gislason
