Subject: Bug#3520: Manpages netpbm show up double

From: Maarten Boekhold <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 22:40:15 +0200 (MET DST)

Package: netpbm
Version: 1994.03.01pl1-2

When doing 'man -k tiff', tifftopnm shows up under section 1netpbm as well
as under section 1. They are only present one time.

Before I installed netpbm, I purged pbmplus, after installing I did a
'mandb'.

Possible cause (I don't know **** about manpages writing):

.TH tifftopnm 1 "13 January 1991"

             ^^^

Maarten

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From: "James A. Robinson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 15:33:36 -0400

> Before I installed netpbm, I purged pbmplus, after installing I did a

Hmm, I don't have this problem.  Try clobbering your mandb files and
running mandb again.  I think it is probably remembering the pbmplus
man pages even though you ran mandb after a purge.

> .TH tifftopnm 1 "13 January 1991"

Do you have this problem with _all_ netpbm man pages?  In any case,
yes, this might be a problem (I'm not sure) -- the .TH format is

	title section extra1 extra2 extra3

But I would think the section is 1, because it is in man1, not
man1netpbm.  Anyone here who is better groff groker have advice?

Jim

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From: Maarten Boekhold <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 21:37:55 +0200 (MET DST)

> man pages even though you ran mandb after a purge.

What do you mean by 'clobbering my mandb files' ?
 
> yes, this might be a problem (I'm not sure) -- the .TH format is

Yup, all of them (well, more then one, so I assume all).
 
> man1netpbm.  Anyone here who is better groff groker have advice?

No, not in man1netpbm, but the man-pages have extensions of 1netpbm, such
as in /usr/man/man1/tifftopnm.1netpbm

Maarten

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From: "James A. Robinson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 17:38:33 -0400

> What do you mean by 'clobbering my mandb files' ?

find /var/catman -type f|xargs rm

> as in /usr/man/man1/tifftopnm.1netpbm

Yes, I realize that. Again, I think it is odd that I don't have any
problem with repeats -- so it might be mandb.  In any case, I think
somebody (groff-knowledgeable) will probably get back to me.

Jim