Devuan bug report logs - #663
man-db: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open"

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

Reported by: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@klepp.biz>

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:44:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian

Merged with 664

Found in version 2.9.4-4

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/1005888

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So what would you suggest? File a bugrport for "xdg-utils"?

Nik

Anno domini 2022 Fri, 18 Feb 01:05:32 -0600
 David (Plasma) Paul scripsit:
> Control: tags -1 wontfix
> 
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:42:40 +0100
> "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@klepp.biz> 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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Devuan bug report logs - #663 man-db: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open"

Devuan bug report logs - #663
man-db: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open"