tags 691643 - patch thanks Hi.
I tested this with the new version. # touch /usr/share/man/man3/ # mandb -p 2>/dev/null |tail -n3 1 man subdirectory contained newer manual pages. 1108 manual pages were added. 0 stray cats were added. # mandb -p 2>/dev/null |tail -n3 0 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages. 0 manual pages were added. 0 stray cats were added. Looks like this still happens. For anyone following this, I wrote last about this on the mailing list: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/man-db-devel/2013-12/msg00008.html The simplest way I found to make the issue go away was to use stat instead of lstat to get the mtimes, but that ran afoul with the test suite. I didn't explore that further. I wrote a small script to equalize man links' mtimes with the man page files. I'm not suggesting it as a solution but if you want to see what kind of impact this has, then feel free to test it (run mandb -c afterwards). #! /bin/bash set -e if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <path>" >&2 exit 1 fi cd "$1" for f in $(find . -type l); do touch -h -m -c "$f" -r "$(readlink "$f")" done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
