Bug 2342756 - Fedora firefox.1 man page describes wrong firefox-bin binary
Summary: Fedora firefox.1 man page describes wrong firefox-bin binary
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 41
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-01-29 09:17 UTC by skierpage
Modified: 2025-01-29 09:17 UTC (History)
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Description skierpage 2025-01-29 09:17:06 UTC 
firefox(1) in Fedora says
>   firefox is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable, firefox-bin.
> ...
>   /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin - firefox executable

but the shell script wraps /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox, not firefox-bin, so these two lines should be changed. The Debian firefox(1) man page https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/firefox/firefox.1.en.html correctly documents the firefox-bin file as "Legacy executable"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read the firefox.1 man page




When and if 2342438 is fixed, the Fedora build won't include a firefox-bin binary.
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