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 old scripts? I know reflexes can be harder, but still, it's been 20 years.
We can perhaps improve some documentation, but I don't currently think it's going to be worth the development effort to improve handling of the case where somebody has manually inserted a /usr/man symlink. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1942063 Title: /usr/man symlink breaks apropos man -k due to fsstnd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1942063/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
