Bug#516133: man-db: doesn't show man pages in preferred language (english) because "default" language is tried last

[Sascha Silbe]

Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-4
Severity: normal





=== Begin stderr output of "man --debug 1 man" ===
ruid=8193, euid=8193
++priv_drop_count = 1
 From the config file /etc/manpath.config:

Mandatory mandir `/usr/man'.
Mandatory mandir `/usr/share/man'.
Mandatory mandir `/usr/local/share/man'.
Path `/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'.
Path `/usr/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'.
Path `/sbin' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'.
Path `/usr/sbin' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'.
Path `/usr/local/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/local/man'.
Path `/usr/local/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/local/share/man'.
Path `/usr/local/sbin' mapped to mandir `/usr/local/man'.
Path `/usr/local/sbin' mapped to mandir `/usr/local/share/man'.
Path `/usr/X11R6/bin' mapped to mandir `/usr/X11R6/man'.
Path `/usr/bin/X11' mapped to mandir `/usr/X11R6/man'.
Path `/usr/games' mapped to mandir `/usr/share/man'.
Path `/opt/bin' mapped to mandir `/opt/man'.
Path `/opt/sbin' mapped to mandir `/opt/man'.
Global mandir `/usr/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/fsstnd'.
Global mandir `/usr/share/man', catdir `/var/cache/man'.
Global mandir `/usr/local/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/oldlocal'.
Global mandir `/usr/local/share/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/local'.
Global mandir `/usr/X11R6/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/X11R6'.
Global mandir `/opt/man', catdir `/var/cache/man/opt'.
Added section `1'.
Added section `n'.
Added section `l'.
Added section `8'.
Added section `3'.
Added section `2'.
Added section `3posix'.
Added section `3pm'.
Added section `3perl'.
Added section `5'.
Added section `4'.
Added section `9'.
Added section `6'.
Added section `7'.
`/usr/man'      `'      `1'
`/usr/share/man'        `'      `1'
`/usr/local/share/man'  `'      `1'
`/bin'  `/usr/share/man'        `0'
`/usr/bin'      `/usr/share/man'        `0'
`/sbin' `/usr/share/man'        `0'
`/usr/sbin'     `/usr/share/man'        `0'
`/usr/local/bin'        `/usr/local/man'        `0'
`/usr/local/bin'        `/usr/local/share/man'  `0'
`/usr/local/sbin'       `/usr/local/man'        `0'
`/usr/local/sbin'       `/usr/local/share/man'  `0'
`/usr/X11R6/bin'        `/usr/X11R6/man'        `0'
`/usr/bin/X11'  `/usr/X11R6/man'        `0'
`/usr/games'    `/usr/share/man'        `0'
`/opt/bin'      `/opt/man'      `0'
`/opt/sbin'     `/opt/man'      `0'
`/usr/man'      `/var/cache/man/fsstnd' `-1'
`/usr/share/man'        `/var/cache/man'        `-1'
`/usr/local/man'        `/var/cache/man/oldlocal'       `-1'
`/usr/local/share/man'  `/var/cache/man/local'  `-1'
`/usr/X11R6/man'        `/var/cache/man/X11R6'  `-1'
`/opt/man'      `/var/cache/man/opt'    `-1'
`1'     `'      `-5'
`n'     `'      `-5'
`l'     `'      `-5'
`8'     `'      `-5'
`3'     `'      `-5'
`2'     `'      `-5'
`3posix'        `'      `-5'
`3pm'   `'      `-5'
`3perl' `'      `-5'
`5'     `'      `-5'
`4'     `'      `-5'
`9'     `'      `-5'
`6'     `'      `-5'
`7'     `'      `-5'
is a tty
real user = 8193; effective user = 8193

using less as pager

checking for locale de

checking for locale de

checking for locale C:

checking for locale en

checking for locale en

checking for locale en

adding /usr/share/man/en to manpathlist
adding /usr/share/man/de to manpathlist
adding /usr/share/man/de.UTF-8 to manpathlist

warning: /usr/man: No such file or directory
adding /usr/share/man to manpathlist
adding /usr/local/man to manpathlist
adding /usr/local/share/man to manpathlist
warning: /usr/X11R6/man: No such file or directory
warning: /opt/man: No such file or directory

--priv_drop_count = 0

section: 1
searching in /usr/share/man/en, section 1
trying section 1 with globbing
Layout is GNU (1)
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/en/man1: miss
globbing pattern in /usr/share/man/en/man1: man.1*
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/en/cat1: miss
can't open directory /usr/share/man/en/cat1: No such file or directory
directory cache update failed
Succeeded in opening /var/cache/man/en/index.db O_RDONLY
searching in /usr/share/man/de, section 1
trying section 1 with globbing
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/de/man1: miss
globbing pattern in /usr/share/man/de/man1: man.1*
matched: /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz


Started "zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz", pid 8850

Active processes (1):
   "zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz" (8850) -> -1
Active processes (1):
   "zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz" (8850) -> 13
candidate: 0 0 man /usr/share/man/de A - 1 1
searching in /usr/share/man/de.UTF-8, section 1
trying section 1 with globbing
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/man1: miss
globbing pattern in /usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/man1: man.1*
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/cat1: miss

directory cache update failed
Succeeded in opening /var/cache/man/de.UTF-8/index.db O_RDONLY
++priv_drop_count = 1

trying section 1 with globbing

directory cache update failed

--priv_drop_count = 0
searching in /usr/share/man, section 1
trying section 1 with globbing
update_directory_cache /usr/share/man/man1: miss
globbing pattern in /usr/share/man/man1: man.1*
matched: /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz

ult_src: File /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz in mantree /usr/share/man

Started "zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz", pid 8851

Active processes (1):
   "zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz" (8851) -> -1
Active processes (1):
   "zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz" (8851) -> 13
candidate: 0 0 man /usr/share/man A - 1 1
searching in /usr/local/man, section 1
trying section 1 with globbing
update_directory_cache /usr/local/man/man1: miss
can't open directory /usr/local/man/man1: No such file or directory
directory cache update failed
update_directory_cache /usr/local/man/cat1: miss
can't open directory /usr/local/man/cat1: No such file or directory
directory cache update failed
Failed to open /var/cache/man/oldlocal/index.db O_RDONLY
searching in /usr/local/share/man, section 1
trying section 1 with globbing
update_directory_cache /usr/local/share/man/man1: miss

directory cache update failed
update_directory_cache /usr/local/share/man/cat1: miss

directory cache update failed
Failed to open /var/cache/man/local/index.db O_RDONLY


Started "zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz", pid 8852

Active processes (1):
   "zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz" (8852) -> -1
Active processes (1):
   "zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz" (8852) -> 13
found ultimate source file /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz
found lang dir element de

will try cat file /var/cache/man/de/man1/man.1.gz
chdir /usr/share/man/de

Started "zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz", pid 8853
pre-processors `t' from file
page_encoding = ISO-8859-1
source_encoding = ISO-8859-1
cat_charset = ISO-8859-1
locale_charset = UTF-8
roff_device (locale) = utf8
roff_encoding = ISO-8859-1
output_encoding = UTF-8
less_charset = utf-8
Using 90-character lines
format: 1, save_cat: 0, found: 1

Setting MAN_PN to man(1)
++priv_drop_count = 1

Started "/usr/bin/zsoelim", pid 8854
Started "/usr/lib/man-db/manconv", pid 8855
Started "tbl", pid 8858
Started "nroff", pid 8859
Starting pipeline: less [input: {-1, NULL}, output: {0, NULL}]
Started "less", pid 8860
source pipeline 0 returned error or EOF
source pipeline 1 returned error or EOF

Active processes (1):
   "zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz" (8853) -> 0

Active processes (4):
   "/usr/bin/zsoelim" (8854) -> 0
   "/usr/lib/man-db/manconv" (8855) -> 0
   "tbl" (8858) -> 0
   "nroff" (8859) -> 0
Waiting for pipeline: less [input: {-1, NULL}, output: {0, NULL}]
Active processes (1):
   "less" (8860) -> -1
Active processes (1):
   "less" (8860) -> 0
--priv_drop_count = 0
hash_free: 5 entries, 5 (100%) unique

Found 1 man pages
++priv_drop_count = 1
hash_free: 5 entries, 5 (100%) unique
=== End stderr output of "man --debug 1 man" ===


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages man-db depends on:


man-db recommends no packages.

Versions of packages man-db suggests:


-- debconf information:
   man-db/build-database: true
   man-db/rebuild-database: true
   man-db/install-setuid: false

CU Sascha

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http://sascha.silbe.org/
http://www.infra-silbe.de/

As I prefer english, but am able to understand german, I have set LANGUAGE=en_GB:en:en_US:C:de_DE:de. Unfortunately, man now shows the german man pages instead of the english ones, because the english ones are installed as "default" ones (in top directory instead of a locale subdirectory) and thus tried last. At the very least, the "C" part of the LANGUAGE setting should select the system default pages (i.e. the english ones). Better treatment of the "english is default" would be bonus, though. add_nls_manpath(): processing /home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man add_nls_manpath(): processing /usr/share/man/en:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man add_nls_manpath(): processing /usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/usr/share/man/en:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man /usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/usr/share/man/en:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man reduced to /usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/usr/share/man/en:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man add_nls_manpath(): processing /usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/usr/share/man/en:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man add_nls_manpath(): processing /usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/usr/share/man/en:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/usr/share/man/en:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man reduced to /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man add_nls_manpath(): processing /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man reduced to /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man add_nls_manpath(): processing /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man reduced to /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man adding /home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man to manpathlist warning: /home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man: No such file or directory *manpath search path* = /usr/share/man/en:/usr/share/man/de:/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man:/home/sascha.silbe/arch/all/share/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/man ult_src: File /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz in mantree /usr/share/man/de Starting pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Waiting for pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] can't open directory /usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/cat1: No such file or directory searching in /home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man, section 1 update_directory_cache /home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man/man1: miss globbing pattern in /home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man/man1: man.1* update_directory_cache /home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man/cat1: miss can't open directory /home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man/cat1: No such file or directory Failed to open /home/sascha.silbe/arch/x86_64-linux-glibc2.7/share/man/index.db O_RDONLY Starting pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Waiting for pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] can't open directory /usr/local/share/man/man1: No such file or directory can't open directory /usr/local/share/man/cat1: No such file or directory ult_src: File /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz in mantree /usr/share/man/de Starting pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Waiting for pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] converted /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz to /usr/share/man/de/cat1/man.1.gz is_changed: a=/usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz, b=/usr/share/man/de/cat1/man.1.gz (-2) converted /var/cache/man/de/man1/man.1.gz to /var/cache/man/de/man1/man.1.gz Starting pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Setting LESS to -ix8RmPm Manual page man(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%..$PM Manual page man(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%..$ Starting pipeline: /usr/bin/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t ISO-8859-1//IGNORE | tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=90n -rLT=90n -Tutf8 [input: {-1, NULL}, output: {-1, NULL}] Waiting for pipeline: zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz [input: {0, /usr/share/man/de/man1/man.1.gz}, output: {-1, NULL}] Waiting for pipeline: /usr/bin/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t ISO-8859-1//IGNORE | tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=90n -rLT=90n -Tutf8 [input: {-1, NULL}, output: {-1, NULL}] ii bsdmainutils 6.1.10 collection of 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