Where is upstream for man-1.6g?

Rinndalir · 11-07-2015, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by mancha

However, during my review (and with input from MadMaverick9) I began finding more & more bugs. I decided the easiest/quickest approach was to adapt man-db to gracefully co-exist with Slackware's man package. I called my adaptation man-db-lite. That package adds: makewhatis-ng, apropos-ng, and whatis-ng.

After looking at some of the source I understand and agree with your conclusion. Look at this from man2html.c

/* This program is rather buggy, but in spite of that it often works.
Improved things a little - April 1997 & January 1998 & Dec 2001 -
aeb@cwi.nl. */

I found that man has some problems but man2html is really bad. I will try out man-db-lite.

Interesting that your patch was never accepted into the man-1.6g slackware package. Some here seem to insist that if there were any patches here those patches would get picked up. And one poster claimed that since they saw no patches then they must not exist.

The patch mechanism seems pretty informal though for slackware.

Rinndalir · 11-07-2015, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by GazL

I did send a mail with a patch for the slackbuild to Pat, suggesting moving them to usr/man/man3am/ -- which is what I believe some other distro do in order to separate the awk functions and prevent the collision -- but I never heard back.

Many insist that doing what you did should be enough. So maybe re-send it?

Richard Cranium · 11-07-2015, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Rinndalir

After looking at some of the source I understand and agree with your conclusion. Look at this from man2html.c

/* This program is rather buggy, but in spite of that it often works.
Improved things a little - April 1997 & January 1998 & Dec 2001 -
aeb@cwi.nl. */

I found that man has some problems but man2html is really bad. I will try out man-db-lite.

Interesting that your patch was never accepted into the man-1.6g slackware package. Some here seem to insist that if there were any patches here those patches would get picked up. And one poster claimed that since they saw no patches then they must not exist.

The patch mechanism seems pretty informal though for slackware.

There's a big difference between submitting a patch for a given package and replacing the package with another one.

You DID read where someone asked you what the specific problem that you had with man, didn't you?

dugan · 11-07-2015, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard Cranium

You DID read where someone asked you what the specific problem that you had with man, didn't you?

Rinndalir has a history of making claims like that and then ignoring people who ask for specifics.

dugan · 11-15-2015, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Rinndalir

Interesting that your patch was never accepted into the man-1.6g slackware package. Some here seem to insist that if there were any patches here those patches would get picked up. And one poster claimed that since they saw no patches then they must not exist.

The patch mechanism seems pretty informal though for slackware.

Mancha's patch is in -current now.