Bug 731569

Summary:	German man page for whatis out of date
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	Martin Schröder <martin>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.4
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Description Martin Schröder 2011-11-19 19:37:17 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

The german man page for whatis does not describe the current version of whatis. Compare this:

- With LANG=C:
FILES
       /usr/share/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
              A traditional global index database cache.

       /var/cache/man/index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
              An FHS compliant global index database cache.

       /usr/share/man/.../whatis
              A traditional whatis text database.
- With LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
DATEIEN
       /var/catman/.../index.(bt|db|dir|pag)
              Die FSSTND complianten globalen Indexdatenbanken.

       /usr/man/.../whatis
              Traditionelle whatis Datenbank.

There seems to be no option to uninstall the german man pages, so either they MUST be kept up to date OR removed. Keeping out of date man pages is BAD.

Reproducible: Always

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> rpm -qf /usr/share/man/de/man1/whatis.1.gz
man-2.5.2-32.2.x86_64

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2012-10-16 16:59:54 UTC

Does not happen with man 2.6.3