[Bug 1942063] Re: /usr/man symlink breaks apropos man -k due to fsstnd

2021-08-31 Thread Ian! D. Allen
If you could at least document what "/fsstnd" is (when the mandb man page says FSSTND should use /var/catman not /fsstnd), and why /usr/man and /usr/share/man are different and must look in different places in the MANDB_MAP, then maybe the current behaviour wouldn't look like a bug but a feature.

[Bug 1942063] Re: /usr/man symlink breaks apropos man -k due to fsstnd

2021-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
This is a bit perplexing, because the transition to /usr/share/man completed before Ubuntu even existed; I think it even predates my taking over maintainership of man-db 20 years ago or so. Is it really easier to go through all of this mess with symlinks rather than just updating a few extremely