Report forwarded to Raphael Bossek <bossekr@debian.org>:
Bug#99533; Package bnetd.   Raphael Bossek  Subject: Bug#99533: bnetd: Missing symlinks for some man pages Reply-To: Colin Watson , 99533-maintonly@bugs.debian.org Resent-From: Colin Watson Orignal-Sender: Colin Watson Resent-To: Raphael Bossek Resent-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:16:44 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@bugs.debian.org X-Debian-PR-Message: report 99533 X-Debian-PR-Package: bnetd X-Debian-PR-Keywords: X-Loop: owner@bugs.debian.org Received: via spool by maintonly@bugs.debian.org id=M.99141861218074 (code M ref -1); Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:16:44 GMT From: Colin Watson To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org Message-Id: Sender: Colin Watson Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:03:26 -0400 Delivered-To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org Package: bnetd Severity: normal Hi, An upcoming release of Debian policy, version 3.5.5.0, contains an amendment which clarifies the way man pages need to be installed. Until now, packages could install /usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz with 'foo, bar \- programs to do something' in the NAME section and have no corresponding symbolic link from bar.1.gz (policy suggested using a symbolic link, but wasn't clear that it's required), and our man program happened to magically figure it out for itself and display the right man page when you typed 'man bar'. However, guaranteeing that this would work even when you've recently installed some new packages has a serious performance impact on man, as it frequently has to go and look through the filesystem to update its database. Before woody's base system is frozen, I intend to remove this "feature" from man-db, so that its performance is consistent and acceptable for a reasonable number of people. It isn't a standard feature even among the various man page browsers in Debian, let alone in other Linux distributions, so there should be no compatibility problems. However, your package seems to rely on it, so this bug is being filed to let you know that the way some of your man pages are installed needs to be improved in order to work properly in woody. All you need to do, if you already have, say, foo(1) and expect bar(1) to work as well, is install a symbolic link to foo.1.gz as bar.1.gz (.so links and hard links are also OK, though symlinks are recommended). Here's a list of man pages and the names that don't appear anywhere in the filesystem: usr/share/man/man4/bntext.4.gz: bnmotd.txt usr/share/man/man4/bntext.4.gz: bnnews.txt If the list looks odd, please check man(7) to see if the man page is formatted properly. This output was generated by way of mandb, so if it's confused then users will be too; if it turns out that it's done the wrong thing, please reassign this bug to man-db so that I can fix it. I might not have caught symlinks that are created in the postinst (say, using alternatives); if that's the case, please close this bug. Please see bug #94995 and policy 3.5.5 section 13.1 for more information, and feel free to contact me if you need help. Thanks, -- Colin Watson, via a script   Acknowledgement sent to Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Raphael Bossek <bossekr@debian.org>.   -t  From: owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Colin Watson Subject: Bug#99533: Acknowledgement of maintainer-only report (bnetd: Missing symlinks for some man pages) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Debian-PR-Message: ack-maintonly 99533 Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers (but not the mailing list, as you requested) for their attention; they will reply in due course. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Raphael Bossek If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to 99533-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (and *not* to maintonly@bugs.debian.org). Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the Bug-tracking system. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database)   Received: (at maintonly) by bugs.debian.org; 1 Jun 2001 18:03:32 +0000 From cjwatson@auric.debian.org Fri Jun 01 13:03:31 2001 Return-path: Received: from auric.debian.org [206.246.226.45] (mail) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 155tGk-0004fN-00; Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:03:30 -0500 Received: from cjwatson by auric.debian.org with local (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 155tGg-0001wR-00; Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:03:26 -0400 From: Colin Watson To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org Subject: bnetd: Missing symlinks for some man pages Message-Id: Sender: Colin Watson Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:03:26 -0400 Delivered-To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org Package: bnetd Severity: normal Hi, An upcoming release of Debian policy, version 3.5.5.0, contains an amendment which clarifies the way man pages need to be installed. Until now, packages could install /usr/share/man/man1/foo.1.gz with 'foo, bar \- programs to do something' in the NAME section and have no corresponding symbolic link from bar.1.gz (policy suggested using a symbolic link, but wasn't clear that it's required), and our man program happened to magically figure it out for itself and display the right man page when you typed 'man bar'. However, guaranteeing that this would work even when you've recently installed some new packages has a serious performance impact on man, as it frequently has to go and look through the filesystem to update its database. Before woody's base system is frozen, I intend to remove this "feature" from man-db, so that its performance is consistent and acceptable for a reasonable number of people. It isn't a standard feature even among the various man page browsers in Debian, let alone in other Linux distributions, so there should be no compatibility problems. However, your package seems to rely on it, so this bug is being filed to let you know that the way some of your man pages are installed needs to be improved in order to work properly in woody. All you need to do, if you already have, say, foo(1) and expect bar(1) to work as well, is install a symbolic link to foo.1.gz as bar.1.gz (.so links and hard links are also OK, though symlinks are recommended). Here's a list of man pages and the names that don't appear anywhere in the filesystem: usr/share/man/man4/bntext.4.gz: bnmotd.txt usr/share/man/man4/bntext.4.gz: bnnews.txt If the list looks odd, please check man(7) to see if the man page is formatted properly. This output was generated by way of mandb, so if it's confused then users will be too; if it turns out that it's done the wrong thing, please reassign this bug to man-db so that I can fix it. I might not have caught symlinks that are created in the postinst (say, using alternatives); if that's the case, please close this bug. Please see bug #94995 and policy 3.5.5 section 13.1 for more information, and feel free to contact me if you need help. Thanks, -- Colin Watson, via a script   Tags added: fixed Request was from Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 21 Feb 2002 20:10:14 +0000 From troup@auric.debian.org Thu Feb 21 14:10:14 2002 Return-path: Received: from auric.debian.org [206.246.226.45] (mail) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 16dzXi-0003ua-00; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:10:14 -0600 Received: from troup by auric.debian.org with local (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 16dzKw-00076D-00; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:57:02 -0500 From: Jordi Mallach To: control@bugs.debian.org Cc: Jordi Mallach , Raphael Bossek X-Katie: $Revision: 1.68 $ Subject: Fixed in NMU of bnetd 0.4.25-0.1 Message-Id: Sender: James Troup Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:57:02 -0500 Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org tag 134494 + fixed tag 99533 + fixed quit This message was generated automatically in response to a non-maintainer upload. The .changes file follows. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:03:20 +0100 Source: bnetd Binary: bnetd Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.4.25-0.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Raphael Bossek Changed-By: Jordi Mallach Description: bnetd - Battle.Net server for Unix like systems Closes: 99533 134494 Changes: bnetd (0.4.25-0.1) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * New upstream release. (Closes: #134494) * Running the daemon as games. (part of #76749, needs chroot) * Removed obsolete dh_suidregister from debian/rules. * Above fixes by Robert Millan . * Install symlinks for manpages. (Closes: #99533) * Users in the USA should read #134984 and do something about it... Files: 56e523491a4fe43b9790575fe1917010 617 net optional bnetd_0.4.25-0.1.dsc 8a27ad997fabfb6d1dc514bb14c01bed 633977 net optional bnetd_0.4.25.orig.tar.gz 740bdf3bfb0c0fdb965587f1683f9a24 10446 net optional bnetd_0.4.25-0.1.diff.gz 0d300828d1a8da09bc799852e61a6391 339050 net optional bnetd_0.4.25-0.1_i386.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8dQqRJYSUupF6Il4RAkKKAKDsdnNg5ZUlmPjUiBHTjNTaffKGDACfZ0oq gcxNkKPZ57/GkYc6zUVh/GE= =2rWD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----   Bug marked as fixed in version 0.4.25-0.1, send any further explanations to Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Request was from Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Received: (at control) by bugs.debian.org; 27 Sep 2008 21:35:56 +0000 From kurt@roeckx.be Sat Sep 27 21:35:56 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (2007-08-08) on rietz.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.0000 Tokens: new, 149; hammy, 114; neutral, 33; spammy, 2. spammytokens:0.987-1--170515, 0.969-+--1001 hammytokens:0.000-+--H*u:Mutt, 0.000-+--NMU, 0.000-+--H*r:1000, 0.000-+--H*UA:1.5.18, 0.000-+--H*u:1.5.18 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=4.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,PHONENUMBER autolearn=no version=3.2.3-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Return-path: Received: from wilson.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.42]) by rietz.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KjhQR-0006Je-9t for control@bugs.debian.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:34:11 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by wilson.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 21D6834039 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:34:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from intrepid.roeckx.be (d54C3F9E9.access.telenet.be [84.195.249.233]) by wilson.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127FE34038 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:34:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: by intrepid.roeckx.be (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AA4E5EAF36; Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:34:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:34:00 +0200 From: Kurt Roeckx To: control@bugs.debian.org Subject: Switching from fixed tag to version close Message-ID: <20080927213400.GA27780@roeckx.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Delivered-To: control@bugs.debian.org # I'm changing all bugs still marked as fixed because of an NMU # but never closed by the maintainer as closed in the version of # the NMU. This will make sure they get properly tracked, # closed and eventually archived. close 323645 0.05-0.1 close 323003 0.1.15-1.1 close 322829 1.0-11.1 close 322812 0.12.21-4.1 close 322804 3.4.0-1.1 close 322803 2.11-6.1 close 322801 2.11-6.1 close 322800 2.10-6.1 close 322799 2.10-6.1 close 322784 2.1.14.1 close 322783 1.0.1.0.0.1 close 321820 0.0.14 close 320171 0.05-0.1 close 320167 0.2.12-1.1 close 318657 0.2.2-2.1 close 317880 0.9.3-1 close 315468 1.4.1-4.1 close 314830 1.4pre.20050518-0.1 close 313817 1.3-2.1 close 313172 1.1.1-2.1 close 311467 2.112.dfsg-0.1 close 311459 0.12.21-4.1 close 311237 0.90beta1-10.1 close 310357 2.1.14.1 close 306622 20050504-1 close 305750 3.1.20.0-4.3 close 304097 2.0pl5-19.2 close 302963 1:1.3-1.1 close 302952 0.8.2.1 close 302918 1.5-7.1 close 300622 1:4.23f13-1 close 298926 4.1-14.1 close 298280 2.9.2-2 close 286642 1:0.5.0-1.2 close 285644 1.0.0-1 close 285634 3.4.10-3.1 close 282056 1.1.3-5.1 close 281220 2.0pl5-19.2 close 279617 2.3-6.2 close 277786 1.0.0-1 close 251446 1.11-6.2 close 190508 0.5.1 close 190464 0.10-1.1 close 189729 3.4-1.1 close 181015 0.13.41-4 close 181014 0.13.41-4 close 181012 0.13.41-4 close 180693 0.52-1 close 178948 0.2.10.1-1.1 close 177641 1.56-1 close 173912 3.9-1.1 close 170515 2.0pl5-19.2 close 167122 1.2-4.1 close 166652 0.0.0.20010624-2.1 close 166230 0.10-1.1 close 161789 0.52-1 close 161137 0.1.14-3.1 close 157745 0.06-1.1 close 151003 1.4-1 close 150470 0.2.0-1 close 142328 1.4-1 close 125253 0.5.1 close 125005 0.10-1.1 close 124108 1.1.3-5.1 close 121865 1.2-1 close 118049 2.0b1-1.1 close 108542 1.2-4.1 close 99533 0.4.25-0.1 close 91506 1.0-2.1 close 86990 1999.12.15-1.2 close 82421 1999.12.15-1.1 close 62449 0.4.19-1.1 close 61441 2.0pl5-19.2 close 52939 2.11-0.1 close 52937 2.11-0.1 thanks