Bug 624410

Summary:	RFE: add test to man-pages for symlinks to nonexisting files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Component:	rpmlint	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <spotrh>
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Description Ivana Varekova 2010-08-16 11:07:33 UTC

Description of problem:
man-pages can have a special type of links: e.g.
$ zcat /usr/share/man/man3/pclose.3.gz
.so man3/popen.3

The format of the page consists of tag ".so" and after this tag there is a path to the targeted man-page, relative to "/usr/share/man"

In this case "man" command display /usr/share/man/man3/popen.3(.gz) page.

If the page to which the .so link leads does not exist then the result of "man" command is an error message. It would be fine to have some test which show the man-pages which leads to nonexisting page - especially for man-page(-xy) packages.

Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2010-08-19 14:45:48 UTC

I believe this would be doable with groff's soelim, patches welcome.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2010-12-07 21:18:46 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 3 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2020-06-03 02:57:01 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in the Fedora.
Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.