gawk installs all manpages except those for the gawk and igawk
binaries into the 3am section.
You just need to configure the SECTION option in
/etc/manpath.config to give this section a lower precedence,
e.g.
SECTION 1 n l 8 3 2 3posix 3pm 3perl 3am 5 4 9 6 7
(alternatively, set the MANSECT e
Package: man-db
Version: 2.7.0.2-5
Severity: wishlist
Recent versions of the gawk package install manpages
for various gawk extension modules in the "3am" section.
Please consider adding "3am" to the default SECTION option
in /etc/manpath.config, so that fork(2) is displayed in preference
to fo
I filed https://bugs.debian.org/838759 against man-db in relation to this issue.
I recomend closing this bug if & when 838759 is fixed.
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