tags 503472 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 06:00:27PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the classic man package will automatically locate compressed man pages that
> it
> can handle. so since the classic man can handle gzip/bzip/etc..., it'll
> search for the .so target with compression extensions automatically. e.g. if
> the man page is actually foo.5.gz and there is a man page moo.5 that contains
> just ".so foo.5", then man is able to automatically find the foo.5.gz when
> asked to look for moo(5).
This is true of man-db too.
> not sure what the preference order is though without testing. i.e. if both
> foo.5 and foo.5.gz exist, then what does ".so foo.5" select by default ?
I'm not concerned about the fine detail there; as far as I'm concerned
that's undefined and man is entitled to randomly pick one or the other.
Anyway, I've now committed a fix for this bug upstream, which will be in
man-db 2.6.0:
Wed Dec 1 22:24:51 GMT 2010 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
Improve .so searching (Debian bug #503472).
* src/Makefile.am (zsoelim_SOURCES): Add manp.c and manp.h.
* src/zsoelim.l (zsoelim_parse_file): Take manpathlist and
parent_path arguments, and save those to pass on to
zsoelim_open_file.
(try_compressed): New function, split out from zsoelim_open_file.
(zsoelim_open_file): Take manpathlist and parent_path arguments.
Rearrange search logic as follows: (1) if there is no parent_path,
try opening directly; (2) look up filename within each manpath
entry, treating filenames without directory parts as full manual
page lookups; (3) if there is a parent_path, try opening directly.
(zsoelim_stdin): Pass path and manpathlist from input data to
zsoelim_open_file and zsoelim_parse_file.
(zsoelim_stdin_data_new, zsoelim_stdin_data_free): New functions.
* src/zsoelim.h (zsoelim_open_file, zsoelim_parse_file): Update
prototypes.
(zsoelim_stdin_data_new, zsoelim_stdin_data_free): Add prototypes.
* src/zsoelim_main.c (main): Initialise locale and manpath. Pass
manpath to zsoelim_open_file and zsoelim_parse_file.
* src/man.c (main): Calculate manpath before handling -l option.
(make_roff_command): Pass dir and manpathlist to zsoelim_stdin.
* src/tests/zsoelim-1: New test.
* src/tests/Makefile.am (ALL_TESTS): Add zsoelim-1.
* NEWS: Document this.
* src/manp.c (get_def): If not setuid, make this identical to
get_def_user.
* src/manp.h (get_def): Likewise.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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