Subject: bug#663 closed by "David (Plasma) Paul" <[email-masked]> (reply to [email-masked], devuan developers internal list <[email-masked]>) (Re: [devuan-dev] bug#663: man-db: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open")

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 07:08:06 +0000

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

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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#663: man-db: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open"
From: "David (Plasma) Paul" <[email-masked]>
To: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 01:05:32 -0600

Control: tags -1 wontfix

On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:42:40 +0100
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <[email-masked]> wrote:
>    * What led up to the situation?
> $ man open
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> $ man open
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> The manpage of xdg-open, /usr/share/man/man1/xdg-open.1.gz, from
> package "xdg-op
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> The manpage of "open", /usr/share/man/man2/open.2.gz, from package
> "manpages-dev

The command is working as intended.

When manpages in multiple sections of the manual share the same name,
the page from the earliest section of the manual is fetched and
displayed in response to running 'man <manpage>'.

The xdg-utils package includes an alias for /usr/bin/xdg-open in the
form of /usr/bin/open. A manpage alias is included in the same fashion,
thus both sections 1 and 2 of the manual have a manpage for 'open'.

To specify from which section of the manual to display a manpage,
proceed the name of the manpage with the section number,
i.e.'man 2 open'. To display matching manpages from all sections, use
the -a option, i.e. 'man -a open'.

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Subject: man-db: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open"
From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:42:40 +0100

Package: man-db
Version: 2.9.4-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email-masked]

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
$ man open

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
$ man open

   * What was the outcome of this action?
The manpage of xdg-open, /usr/share/man/man1/xdg-open.1.gz, from package "xdg-op

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
The manpage of "open", /usr/share/man/man2/open.2.gz, from package "manpages-dev

-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus/ceres)
Release:    5
Codename:   daedalus ceres
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_M
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_AT:d
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii  bsdextrautils          2.37.3-1+devuan1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.79
ii  groff-base             1.22.4-8
ii  libc6                  2.33-5
ii  libgdbm6               1.22-1
ii  libpipeline1           1.5.5-1
ii  libseccomp2            2.5.3-2
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

man-db recommends no packages.

Versions of packages man-db suggests:
pn  apparmor                            <none>
ii  firefox-esr [www-browser]		91.5.0esr-1
ii  google-chrome-stable [www-browser]  98.0.4758.80-1
ii  groff                               1.22.4-8
ii  konqueror-trinity [www-browser]	4:14.1.0~s911-0debian12.0.0+17~a
ii  less                                590-1
ii  lynx [www-browser]			2.9.0dev.10-1

-- debconf information:
  man-db/install-setuid: false
  man-db/auto-update: true

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