Package: man-db
Version: 2.8.1-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

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tglase@tglase:~ $ man ls
man: nroff: Bad system call
 Manual page ls(1) line ?/? (END) (press h for help or q to quit)
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This one works, though:
tglase@tglase:~ $ zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz | nroff -mandoc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii  bsdmainutils           11.1.2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.65
ii  dpkg                   1.19.0.5
ii  groff-base             1.22.3-10
ii  libc6                  2.26-6
ii  libgdbm5               1.14.1-3
ii  libpipeline1           1.5.0-1
ii  libseccomp2            2.3.1-2.1
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

man-db recommends no packages.

Versions of packages man-db suggests:
pn  apparmor                    <none>
ii  dillo [www-browser]         3.0.5-4
ii  groff                       1.22.3-10
ii  less                        487-0.1
ii  links2 [www-browser]        2.14-5
ii  lynx [www-browser]          2.8.9dev16-2
ii  opera-static [www-browser]  9.64.2480.gcc4.qt3

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

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