FS#17622 - [man-db] Incompatible with zlib 1.2.3.4
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Opened by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 27 December 2009, 15:31 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 15 March 2010, 12:00 GMT
Opened by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 27 December 2009, 15:31 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Monday, 15 March 2010, 12:00 GMT
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man-db is incompatible with zlib 1.2.3.4.
When displaying manpages, sometimes manconv will stop output after 4096 bytes, which will cause some manpages to be cut off. Also causes manconv to enter an infinite loop while processing japanese or chinese manpages during a mandb update. A rebuild doesn't seem to be sufficient. Sample manpages: man chacl man grotty man 3 errno Package versions: man-db 2.5.6-1 zlib 1.2.3.3-3 (works) 1.2.3.4-1 (broken) |
This task depends upon
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562503
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562518
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/man-db/man-db_2.5.6-5/changelog
* Backport from trunk:
- Handle iconv errors when attempting to convert the last input encoding
to UTF-8 (closes: #562503).
If I get it right this should make mandb working again without the need of a patched zlib. But as zlib is patched anyway atm we can wait for a new upstream release of mandb.
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases-noredirect/man-db/man-db-2.5.7.tar.gz