On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:08:09AM +1100, Andrew Nesbit wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >Yeah, man-db in potato was pretty broken in a number of ways. > > Since upgrading, this problem has gone away, and things are much smoother.
Glad to hear it! > >man-db in woody won't do this. Maybe I should produce a version > >backported to potato? > > Hmm, could be an idea. I think the main motivation for this should be > that Potato is supposed to be the rock-solid version, and so one would > expect everything to function without these sorts of glitches. Yeah. Without wishing to make excuses, I didn't maintain man-db back then, and the fixes required to solve the problems you mention are really too potentially disruptive to be applied to a stable release after the fact. Any version I produce would be "unofficial". Then again, one of the main motivations for me taking over man-db in the first place was exactly your first problem ... > OTOH, with a stable Woody release just around the corner, this mightn't > so necessary. Let's hope so. I'd love to be able to ditch lots of the things in potato. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
