Bug 1203606 - The binutils package contains the windmc(1) manual page but the utility is not included
Summary: The binutils package contains the windmc(1) manual page but the utility is no...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: binutils
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nick Clifton
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-19 09:15 UTC by Martin Cermak
Modified: 2016-12-20 13:22 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of: 850832
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-12-20 13:22:52 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Martin Cermak 2015-03-19 09:15:50 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #850832 +++

Description of problem:
The binutils package contains the windmc(1) manual page, but the windmc utility is not included in the package. This is confusing, because if a utility is documented, people expect it to be present in the system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.34.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure the binutils package is installed:

   # yum install binutils

2. Access the manual page for the windmc utility:

   $ man windmc

3. Attempt to run the utility itself:

   $ windmc
  
Actual results:
I can see the manual page, but the utility is clearly not there:

   $ rpm -ql binutils | grep windmc
   /usr/share/man/man1/windmc.1.gz

Expected results:
Either the /usr/share/man/man1/windmc.1.gz file should be removed, or the windmc utility should be added to the package.

Comment 1 Martin Cermak 2015-03-19 09:16:23 UTC
Relevant to  binutils-2.23.88.0.1-13.fc20.

Comment 3 Nick Clifton 2015-03-19 14:30:21 UTC
Fixed in: binutils-2.25-6.fc23

The binutils.spec file already has a line to remove other unwanted manual pages, so I have just checked in a small patch to add windmc to the list.

Is it worth backporting this patch to F22 and/or F21 ?  Personally I don't think so as it really is a minor change.

Cheers
  Nick

Comment 6 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 14:23:34 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23

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