On 2011-03-15 03:54 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: ncurses-doc
> Version: 5.8+20110307-1
Note that none of this is new, the same problem exists in the
libncurses5-dev package in squeeze and lenny which held the
documentation before I split it out to ncurses-doc.
> ncurses-doc has /usr/share/doc/ncurses-doc/html/man/*.3x.html files,
> but not the corresponding man pages in /usr/share/man/man3.
More exactly, the manpages are there, but not under the same names.
This is because they are renamed (see man/man_db.renames in the ncurses
source tree), while the HTML documentation does not receive such
treatment.
I don't know why this setup with renaming manpages exists, but it has
been around at least since ncurses 4.1, released 1997.
> Note that some other man pages, e.g. reset(1), have references to
> such man pages in the "SEE ALSO" section, so that it is annoying
> not to have access to these man pages with "man".
This is a fallout from the following change mentioned in NEWS:
,----
| 20061230
| [...]
| + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
| to manpages as needed.
`----
That change fixed the links in the HTML documentation, but broke the
references in the manpages themselves.
Regards,
Sven
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