This is a long-standing issue, but in my opinion the only sane way to solve it is following the addition of triggers to dpkg so that man-db can say "run mandb after installing any packages that ship files in /usr/share/man". I am not particularly keen on modifying every package that ships a man page to update the database a package at a time; that would take ages to deploy and would be slower than just running mandb once at the end.
-- man-db provides no means for packages to index their manpages https://launchpad.net/bugs/65782 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
