Subject: Re: bug#663: man-db: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open"

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:49:10 +0100

Got a "wontfix" and "bug closed" from Debian:

"Yes, that's because /usr/share/man/man1/open.1.gz exists as an
alternative which is symlinked to xdg-open.1.gz on your system (via
alternatives), and section 1 is first in the priority list, so man is
working as designed.  Use "man 2 open" to get the page for the system
call."

What nutball does such things?

Nik

Anno domini 2022 Wed, 16 Feb 15:20:19 +0000
 Mark Hindley scripsit:
> Control: tags -1 debian
>
> Nikolaus,
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 09:42:40AM +0100, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Package: man-db
> > Version: 2.9.4-4
>
> Thanks for this. However neither man-db, xdg-utils not manpages-dev are forked
> packages in Devuan and we use Debian's packages directly without recompilation.
>
> Please report this issue to Debian's BTS.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mark
>

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