FS#18657 - [man-db] large number of bogus man pages

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Friday, 12 March 2010, 18:19 GMT
Last edited by Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227) - Thursday, 18 March 2010, 02:18 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description: man-db is finding bogus man pages, all from section 3. Recreating mandb shows thousands of bogus entries. Appears to affect all pages included in {core,testing}/man-pages.


Additional info:
* package version: 2.5.7.1
* Output of `mandb -c` can be found here: http://pastebin.com/y7zugjhc


Steps to reproduce:
Upgrade to testing version of man-db. Open a man page included in {core,testing}/man-pages such as random(3). Confirmed on multiple installs that downgrading man-db alone (not man-pages) resolves the issue.
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Closed by  Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227)
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 02:18 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  user provided fix in comments
Comment by Sam Harada (Peasantoid) - Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 20:25 GMT
man-db doesn't seem to like /usr/share/man/man3x/. It's just a symlink to man3/; I removed it (the symlink) and all seems to be well here.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 17 March 2010, 21:55 GMT
Kudos. Something must have changed in the source.

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