Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.3-3
Severity: wishlist

The man command has no --silent or --quiet option to turn off the
"Reformatting Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Test(3pm), please wait..."
messages. The user must resort to 2>&-, which is overkill, as it turns
off all error messages.

$ m=Mail::SpamAssassin::
$ man $m\Plugin::Test $m\PluginHandler $m\Util $m\Plugin::RelayCountry|
grep ^perl
Reformatting Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Test(3pm), please wait...
perl v5.8.8                       2006-03Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Test(3pm)
Reformatting Mail::SpamAssassin::PluginHandler(3pm), please wait...
perl v5.8.8                       2006-0Mail::SpamAssassin::PluginHandler(3pm)
Reformatting Mail::SpamAssassin::Util(3pm), please wait...
perl v5.8.8                       2006-03-10     Mail::SpamAssassin::Util(3pm)
Reformatting Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry(3pm), please wait...
perl v5.8.8                      Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry(3pm)
$ man $m\Plugin::Test $m\PluginHandler $m\Util $m\Plugin::RelayCountry 2>&-|
grep ^perl
perl v5.8.8                       2006-03Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Test(3pm)
perl v5.8.8                       2006-0Mail::SpamAssassin::PluginHandler(3pm)
perl v5.8.8                       2006-03-10     Mail::SpamAssassin::Util(3pm)
perl v5.8.8                      Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry(3pm)


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