I'm not trying to stop you committing whatever you want to your repository, of course, but I want to be clear that this doesn't actually solve the right problem for manual page indexing. The point of the parsing code in mandb(8) - and I'm not claiming that it's great code or the perfect design, just that it works most of the time - is to extract the names and summary-descriptions from each page so that they can be used by tools such as apropos(1) and whatis(1). Splitting on section boundaries is just the simplest part of that problem, and I don't think that doing it in a separate program really gains anything.
(That's leaving aside things like localized man pages, which I know some folks on the groff list tend to sniff at but I think they're important, and the fact that the NAME section has both semantic and presentational meaning means that like it or not the parser needs to be aware of this.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
