Subject: Bug#3939: /etc/manpath.config is not a conffile.

From: Christian Hudon <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:15:00 -0700 (PDT)

Package: man
Version: 2.3.10-13

/etc/manpath.config should be a conffile, otherwise users loose all their
modifications when they upgrade, but...

sysadmin@chloe:[~] #dpkg -s man
Package: man
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: doc
Maintainer: Alvar Bray <[email-masked]>
Version: 2.3.10-13
Depends: groff, libc5, libgdbm1, bsdmainutils
Description: Display the on-line manual.
 This packages provides the man command, this utility is the primary
 way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities
 provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the
 manual page database; the manpath utility for determining the manual
 page search path and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and
 zsoelim. This packages uses the groff suit of programs to format and
 display the manual pages.

... it's not a conffile.

Also, It'd be nice if the lines reffering to X11R5/man, X386/man and
X11/man could be removed (or at least commented out) since 

a) they're now obsolete

b) they produce an annoying set of warnings for people who use the
'manpath' command to add directories to the system manpath:
manpath: warning: /usr/X11R5/man: No such file or directory
manpath: warning: /usr/X11/man: No such file or directory
manpath: warning: /usr/X386/man: No such file or directory

    Christian

PS Please keep the Cc: chrish@libertel... I got unsubscribed to
debian-devel because local mailer problems.

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From: [email-masked] (Bernd Eckenfels)
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 06:18:54 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,

> manpath: warning: /usr/X386/man: No such file or directory

And the cat directories should be removed:

/var/catman/X386
/var/catman/X386/cat1
/var/catman/X386/cat2
/var/catman/X386/cat3
/var/catman/X386/cat4
/var/catman/X386/cat5
/var/catman/X386/cat6
/var/catman/X386/cat7
/var/catman/X386/cat8
/var/catman/X11R5
/var/catman/X11R5/cat1
/var/catman/X11R5/cat2
/var/catman/X11R5/cat3
/var/catman/X11R5/cat4
/var/catman/X11R5/cat5
/var/catman/X11R5/cat6
/var/catman/X11R5/cat7
/var/catman/X11R5/cat8

Greetings
Bernd