Fix has been uploaded in F/G and I have pinged sil2100 for SRU approval. Note that the approval might have to wait after the holidays, but it's fine, it's low priority.
It's an annoyance for sure, but no core functionality is really broken. - Eric ** Description changed: [Impact] - One cannot consult the 'lsof' manpage: + One cannot consult the 'lsof' manpage in various ways: * Using CLI: man lsof * Ubuntu Manpage: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search.py?q=lsof You will notice the manpage is missing for F and G. Workarounds would be: * Use '--help' parameter * Use a search engine to find an 'lsof' online man page. This has been first introduced with the new upstream release of '4.93.2+dfsg-1'. lsof | 4.93.2+dfsg-1 | focal lsof | 4.93.2+dfsg-1 | groovy [Test Case] == CLI == * On an F/G system, perform "man lsof" It will errors out as follows: " man: can't open /usr/share/man/./version: No such file or directory No manual entry for lsof " == Ubuntu Manpage == * Browse the Ubuntu Manpage: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search.py?q=lsof No 'lsof' manpage is found for F/G. [Where problem could occur] If a problem arise, it will only affect the lsof manpage. The fix adds a build dependency 'groff-base'[0] that is found in 'main' for all affected release above and pretty much at the same level of code base. debian: groff-base | 1.22.4-5 | unstable ubuntu: groff-base | 1.22.4-4build1 | focal groff-base | 1.22.4-5 | groovy groff-base | 1.22.4-5 | hirsute [0] - https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html#man [Other info] In theory, I would possibly wait for the next bug fixing SRU as an opportunity to merge that change, but according to the d/changelog, there is not much frequent SRU(s) done for 'lsof', so we might have to just fix 'lsof' for this particular case which can be an annoyance for certain Ubuntu users. The package has been fixed in Debian upstream '4.93.2+dfsg-1.1' and auto-synced in Hirsute. It is now needing an SRU for F/G. Debian bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=950601 [Original Description] When trying to view the manpage of lsof, this happens: desktop ~ $ LANG=C man lsof man: can't open /usr/share/man/./version: No such file or directory No manual entry for lsof The man page is present at /usr/share/man/man8/lsof.8.gz. This: zless /usr/share/man/man8/lsof.8.gz reveals that there is the line ".so ./version" at the beginning, with the file "version" not existing. Other man pages don't seem to be affected. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: lsof 4.93.2+dfsg-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Aug 29 13:50:47 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-03 (26 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lsof UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1893513 Title: man page of lsof command broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsof/+bug/1893513/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
