Bug 651899

Summary: broken link: no frobnicate in glibc-html
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj>
Component: DevelopmentAssignee: Michael Matz <matz>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None CC: aj, ke, pth
Version: Final   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Description Christopher Yeleighton 2010-11-06 23:52:59 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; pl-PL; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 SUSE/3.6.12-0.7.1 Ant.com Toolbar 2.0.1 Firefox/3.6.12

Please remove the reference to "frobnicate" from NSS documentation in glibc because the hyperlink is broken and the referenced material adds nothing to the subject.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
  1. 
zypper install glibc-html

  2. 
desktop-launch 'file:///usr/share/doc/glibc/Name-Service-Switch.html#Name-Service-Switch'

  3. Tell the browser to follow to "frobnicate".
Actual Results:  
  2. 
Various functions in the C Library need to be configured to work correctly in the local environment. Traditionally, this was done by using files (e.g., /etc/passwd), but other nameservices (like the Network Information Service (NIS) and the Domain Name Service (DNS)) became popular, and were hacked into the C library, usually with a fixed search order (see frobnicate).

  3.
Podany plik lub katalog /usr/share/doc/jargon/frobnicate.html nie istnieje.

Expected Results:  
  3.
The link is broken in the master copy [1] as well, so I really cannot tell.  I guess the referenced resource should explain the search order in NSS.  If the referenced resource is supposed to be the Jargon File entry for frobnicate [2], that resource adds nothing to the subject and should not be referred to.



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[1] <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Name-Service-Switch.html#Name-Service-Switch>
[2] <URL:http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/frobnicate.html>
Comment 1 Christopher Yeleighton 2010-11-07 01:05:07 UTC 
See also <URL:https://features.opensuse.org/310801#>.
Comment 3 Philipp Thomas 2010-11-09 17:17:10 UTC 
Christopher, you should report such a bug uptreams and the rebort the bug number here.
Comment 4 Christopher Yeleighton 2010-11-09 19:32:05 UTC 
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If the glibc you are using comes from a complete operating system distribution, you should report bugs to that distribution project first. Your distribution's own documentation and web pages should refer you to their bug-reporting system. Your distribution's maintainers will determine whether the problem is specific to their modifications or other details of that particular system. If the problem does exist in the standard GNU C Library code, they will report it to the GNU maintainers or direct you how to do so.
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<URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html#what_to_report >

Accordingly, since I am not a maintainer, if you want me to report bugs regarding glibc upstream, I need a specific recommendation for each and every bug separately.
Comment 6 Philipp Thomas 2011-06-06 13:55:08 UTC 
No, you don't need a recommendation, so please report this upstream.