Devuan bug report logs - #631
man-db: man fails to display manual pages: man: nroff: Bad system call

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Package: man-db; Maintainer for man-db is (unknown); Source for man-db is src:man-db.

Reported by: "ghpille@hotmail.com" <ghpille@hotmail.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:42:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: debian, moreinfo, upstream

Found in version 2.8.5-2

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: bug#631: man-db: man fails to display manual pages: man: nroff:
 Bad system call
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Hi,

Thanks for this.

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:59:42AM +0100, ghpille@hotmail.com wrote:
> Package: man-db
> Version: 2.8.5-2
> Severity: grave
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: renders package unusable

AFAICS none of the packages involved are forked in Devuan and we use Debian's
packages directly without recompilation. There, please report this directly to
Debian's BTS to be fixed there.

Thanks.

Mark

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