On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 09:50:10PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
On 2025-04-09 10:18:05 [+0200], Eric Valette wrote:
Package: libssl-doc
Version: 3.5.0-1
Severity: normal
Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.0-1) ...
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: whatis for X509_CINF_new.3ssl.gz exceeds 8192 bytes,
truncating.
/usr/bin/mandb: warning: whatis for i2d_ASN1_GENERALSTRING.3ssl.gz exceeds 8192
bytes, truncating.
Could someone please explain how severe this warning is? I guess the
warning refers to the uncompressed file since the .gz one is below 8KiB:
It means that the names after that point in the NAME might not show up
in apropos, although it's possible the symlinks might be enough to cause
that to happen anyway.
I do think we need some kind of limit here, but you can reassign to
man-db if you want me to investigate raising it.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
