Package: man-db
Version: 2.11.2-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

N.B. VERSION IS 2.12.0-pre2


Example:

In ~/.manpath

DEFINE nroff -b -ww -mandoc

  Inputfile

.TH XX-test 1 2023-08-21
.XX something

  man (man 2.12.0-pre2) is from the repository

man -l <inputfile>

  Output

IX-test(1)                        General Commands Manual                      
IX-test(1)

                                        2023-08-21                             
IX-test(1)

  but /usr/bin/man (man 2.11.2)  shows

troff: backtrace: file '<standard input>':2
troff:<standard input>:2: warning: macro 'XX' not defined
IX-test(1)                        General Commands Manual                      
IX-test(1)

                                        2023-08-21                             
IX-test(1)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.4.4-2 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1), 
LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii  bsdextrautils          2.39.1-4
ii  bsdmainutils           12.1.8
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
ii  groff-base             1.23.0-2
ii  libc6                  2.37-7
ii  libgdbm6               1.23-3
ii  libpipeline1           1.5.7-1
ii  libseccomp2            2.5.4-1+b3
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

man-db recommends no packages.

Versions of packages man-db suggests:
pn  apparmor                   <none>
ii  elinks [www-browser]       0.16.1.1-4
ii  firefox-esr [www-browser]  115.1.0esr-1
ii  groff                      1.23.0-2
ii  less                       590-2
ii  lynx [www-browser]         2.9.0dev.12-1
ii  w3m [www-browser]          0.5.3+git20230121-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/manpath.config changed [not included]

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

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