Package: attr
Version: 1:2.4.39-1
Severity: normal

attr(1) refers to several functions (section 3). There're a couple of
problems here:

1. The list is incomplete (it doesn't include the "f" variants, or
   attr_list[f].

2. If you don't have libattr1-dev installed, but do have
   libncurses[w]5-dev installed, "man 3 [set|get]_attr" will give you
   ncurses pages, which is confusing.

For 1, I suggest you at least mention one function per man page.
Mentioning the function and the f-variants leaves the cross-reference
section a bit long.

For 2, I suggest you add a warning to attr(1). It's worth knowing
anyway, as if you want to use libncurses and libattr together,
presumably you have to hack around this clash.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages attr depends on:
ii  libattr1                      1:2.4.39-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

attr recommends no packages.

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