Subject: man1/gcc.1: Where did the manual page go? I can't find it

From: Alejandro Colomar <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:37:57 +0100

Package: gcc-doc
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I can't find the gcc(1) manual page.  It used to be in the gcc-doc
package, AFAIR.  However, I can't find that package.

	$ dpkg -l gcc-doc
	Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
	| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
	|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
	||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
	+++-==============-============-============-=================================
	un  gcc-doc        <none>       <none>       (no description available)

	$ sudo apt-get install gcc-doc
	Reading package lists... Done
	Building dependency tree... Done
	Reading state information... Done
	Package gcc-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
	This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
	is only available from another source

	E: Package 'gcc-doc' has no installation candidate

Have a lovely day!
Alex

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:23:49 +0000

> package, AFAIR.  However, I can't find that package.

It appears to be in the contrib component. See:

 https://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc-doc
 https://pkginfo.devuan.org/gcc-doc

Have you got contrib enabled in your sources.list?

Mark

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From: Alejandro Colomar <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:46:57 +0100

Hi Mark,

>  https://pkginfo.devuan.org/gcc-doc

Ahhh, thanks!

> Have you got contrib enabled in your sources.list?

Didn't, but done now.

Have a lovely day!
Alex

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 12:59:03 +0000

Control: close -1

> > Have you got contrib enabled in your sources.list?

Great. Closing.

Mark