severity 539221 wishlist retitle 539221 man-db: trigger doesn't notice file deletions (hard to fix while retaining decent performance) thanks
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:16:14AM +0300, Timo Lindfors wrote: > Package: man-db > Version: 2.5.5-3 > Severity: minor > > This is a very minor issue but it got me worried since I was first > suspecting that there was someting wrong with my package. I can attach > the real packages to the bug report if that is ok and you can not > reproduce the bug by just looking at the explanation below. > > Steps to reproduce: > 1) install a package with manual page foo in section 1 > 2) man foo > 3) install a new version of the same package that now has manual page foo in > section 2 > 4) man foo > > Expected results: > 4) man shows the manual page of foo > > Actual results: > 4) man prints the following warning message and then shows the manual page of > foo: > > man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz: No such file or directory > > More info: > 1) Apparently /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst calls mandb -pq when > it is triggered on the package upgrade. This -p causes it to not check > for deleted manual pages. Yes, this is true. The reason for this is that I'm pretty sure the performance would be unacceptable for lots of people if I made it do a full run here; it's a compromise. The cron job should eventually catch up and update things. I do consider this a bug, and I'd like to figure out how to fix this one day, but it's likely to require quite a bit of work on mandb to make it work well. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
