Package: man-db
Version: 2.9.4-4
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: colomar.6....@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I have some manual pages for header files, and use section 0 for
them, as the man-pages-posix upstream pages do.  It seems to me to
be more organized than adding stuff to man7, and since the
upstream man-db seems to understand section 0, I think it makes
sense to at least allow it in Debian.

The fix is easy: just adding '0' to 'SECTION' in </etc/manpath.config>.

Thanks,

Alex


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii  bsdextrautils          2.37.2-6
ii  bsdmainutils           12.1.7+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.79
ii  groff-base             1.22.4-8
ii  libc6                  2.33-2
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:
ii  apparmor                            3.0.3-6
ii  chromium [www-browser]              97.0.4692.71-0.1
ii  firefox-esr [www-browser]           91.5.0esr-1
ii  google-chrome-stable [www-browser]  97.0.4692.71-1
ii  groff                               1.22.4-8
ii  less                                590-1
ii  links [www-browser]                 2.25-1
ii  w3m [www-browser]                   0.5.3+git20210102-6

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/manpath.config changed:
MANDATORY_MANPATH                       /usr/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH                       /usr/share/man
MANDATORY_MANPATH                       /usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /bin                    /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/bin                /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /sbin                   /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/sbin               /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/bin          /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/bin          /usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/sbin         /usr/local/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/local/sbin         /usr/local/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/X11R6/bin          /usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/bin/X11            /usr/X11R6/man
MANPATH_MAP     /usr/games              /usr/share/man
MANPATH_MAP     /opt/bin                /opt/man
MANPATH_MAP     /opt/sbin               /opt/man
MANDB_MAP       /usr/man                /var/cache/man/fsstnd
MANDB_MAP       /usr/share/man          /var/cache/man
MANDB_MAP       /usr/local/man          /var/cache/man/oldlocal
MANDB_MAP       /usr/local/share/man    /var/cache/man/local
MANDB_MAP       /usr/X11R6/man          /var/cache/man/X11R6
MANDB_MAP       /opt/man                /var/cache/man/opt
MANDB_MAP       /snap/man               /var/cache/man/snap
SECTION         1 n l 8 3 0 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 3am 5 4 9 6 7


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

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