Package: man-db Version: 2.5.0-4 Severity: normal The whatis utility fails to detect the subject for some commands. For instance:
vin:~> whatis xtermcontrol xtermcontrol (1) - (unknown subject) I've attached what I obtain with the --debug option. The beginning of the xtermcontrol.1 file: .\" troff .ds x xtermcontrol .TH XTERMCONTROL 1 "September 03, 2007" "xtermcontrol 2.9" "User Commands" .SH NAME .\" the x macro is the package name \*x \- dynamic control of XFree86 xterm properties. Perhaps because of the string variable? Same problem for rxvt-xterm, whose man page starts with: .TH "RXVT" "1" "02 NOVEMBER 2001" "X Version 11" "X Tools" .SH "NAME" rxvt (ouR XVT) \- a VT102 emulator for the X window system -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 6.1.10 collection of more utilities from ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.18 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.14.16.6 package maintenance system for Deb ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-16 GNU troff text-formatting system ( ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime man-db recommends no packages. -- debconf information: man-db/build-database: true man-db/rebuild-database: true man-db/install-setuid: false
>From the config file /etc/manpath.config: Mandatory mandir `/usr/man'. Mandatory mandir `/usr/share/man'. Mandatory mandir `/usr/local/man'. Path `/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'. Path `/usr/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'. Path `/sbin' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'. Path `/usr/sbin' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'. Path `/usr/local/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/local/man'. Path `/usr/local/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/local/share/man'. Path `/usr/local/sbin' mapped to mandir `/usr/local/man'. Path `/usr/local/sbin' mapped to mandir `/usr/local/share/man'. Path `/usr/X11R6/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/X11R6/man'. Path `/usr/bin/X11' mapped to mandir `/usr/X11R6/man'. Path `/usr/games' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'. Path `/opt/bin' mapped to mandir `/opt/man'. Path `/opt/sbin' mapped to mandir `/opt/man'. Global mandir `/usr/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/fsstnd'. Global mandir `/usr/share/man', catdir `/var/cache/man'. Global mandir `/usr/local/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/oldlocal'. Global mandir `/usr/local/share/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/local'. Global mandir `/usr/X11R6/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/X11R6'. Global mandir `/opt/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/opt'. Added section `1'. Added section `n'. Added section `l'. Added section `8'. Added section `3'. Added section `2'. Added section `3posix'. Added section `3pm'. Added section `3perl'. Added section `5'. Added section `4'. Added section `9'. Added section `6'. Added section `7'. `/usr/man' `' `1' `/usr/share/man' `' `1' `/usr/local/man' `' `1' `/bin' `/usr/share/man' `0' `/usr/bin' `/usr/share/man' `0' `/sbin' `/usr/share/man' `0' `/usr/sbin' `/usr/share/man' `0' `/usr/local/bin' `/usr/local/man' `0' `/usr/local/bin' `/usr/local/share/man' `0' `/usr/local/sbin' `/usr/local/man' `0' `/usr/local/sbin' `/usr/local/share/man' `0' `/usr/X11R6/bin' `/usr/X11R6/man' `0' `/usr/bin/X11' `/usr/X11R6/man' `0' `/usr/games' `/usr/share/man' `0' `/opt/bin' `/opt/man' `0' `/opt/sbin' `/opt/man' `0' `/usr/man' `/var/cache/man/fsstnd' `-1' `/usr/share/man' `/var/cache/man' `-1' `/usr/local/man' `/var/cache/man/oldlocal' `-1' `/usr/local/share/man' `/var/cache/man/local' `-1' `/usr/X11R6/man' `/var/cache/man/X11R6' `-1' `/opt/man' `/var/cache/man/opt' `-1' `1' `' `-5' `n' `' `-5' `l' `' `-5' `8' `' `-5' `3' `' `-5' `2' `' `-5' `3posix' `' `-5' `3pm' `' `-5' `3perl' `' `-5' `5' `' `-5' `4' `' `-5' `9' `' `-5' `6' `' `-5' `7' `' `-5' path directory /home/vlefevre/bin is not in the config file but does have a ../man or man subdirectory adding /home/vlefevre/man to manpath path directory /home/vlefevre/i686/bin is not in the config file and doesn't have ../man or man subdirectories path directory /usr/local/bin is in the config file warning: /usr/local/man: No such file or directory warning: /usr/local/share/man: No such file or directory path directory /usr/bin is in the config file adding /usr/share/man to manpath path directory /bin is in the config file /usr/share/man is already in the manpath path directory /usr/local/sbin is in the config file warning: /usr/local/man: No such file or directory warning: /usr/local/share/man: No such file or directory path directory /usr/sbin is in the config file /usr/share/man is already in the manpath path directory /sbin is in the config file /usr/share/man is already in the manpath path directory /usr/games is in the config file /usr/share/man is already in the manpath path directory /usr/milip-local/stow/maple-10/maple/bin is not in the config file but does have a ../man or man subdirectory adding /usr/milip-local/stow/maple-10/maple/man to manpath adding mandatory man directories warning: /usr/man: No such file or directory /usr/share/man is already in the manpath warning: /usr/local/man: No such file or directory add_nls_manpath(): processing /home/vlefevre/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/milip-local/stow/maple-10/maple/man adding /home/vlefevre/man to manpathlist adding /usr/share/man to manpathlist adding /usr/milip-local/stow/maple-10/maple/man to manpathlist lower(xtermcontrol) = "xtermcontrol" path=/home/vlefevre/man warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database /home/vlefevre/man/whatispath=/usr/share/man name: xtermcontrol sec. ext: 1 section: 1 comp. ext: gz id: A st_mtime 1196975728 pointer: - filter: - whatis: path=/usr/milip-local/stow/maple-10/maple/man warning: can't read the fallback whatis text database /usr/milip-local/stow/maple-10/maple/man/whatishash_free: 0 entries, 0 (0%) unique xtermcontrol (1) - (unknown subject)
