Debian Bug report logs - #1101827
man: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7

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Package: manpages; Maintainer for manpages is Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]>; Source for manpages is src:manpages (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Marco Herrn <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 12:09:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version manpages/6.9.1-1

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]>:
Bug#1101827; Package manpages. (Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:09:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Marco Herrn <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]>. (Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:09:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Marco Herrn <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: man: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:43:06 +0200
Package: manpages
Version: 6.9.1-1
Severity: minor

Apparently the manpage of `man` references another manpage `groff_man.7`
that is not available if the groff package is not installed. This leads to
the following error message:

  $ man man
  man: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7

See https://askubuntu.com/a/1521318 for more information.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.19-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

manpages depends on no packages.

manpages recommends no packages.

Versions of packages manpages suggests:
ii  man-db [man-browser]  2.13.0-1

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