[Bug 664211] Re: catman doesn't generate cat pages for section 1 when p7zip is installed

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Title:
  catman doesn't generate cat pages for section 1 when p7zip is
  installed

Status in “man-db” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: man-db

  This is more a symptom of a bug than the cause, the cat pages for
  section 1 are not generated (or rather written to disk) when p7zip is
  installed

  On my system only 404main.1.gz and 411toppm.1.gz are in
  /var/cache/man/cat1/ after running catman.

  TEST CASE:
  1. sudo apt-get install p7zip
  2. sudo rm /var/cache/man/cat*/*
  3. sudo LC_ALL=C catman 1
  4. ls /var/cache/man/cat1/
  5. Verify that the list contains a few hundreds files with the extension .1.gz

  If p7zip is already install then run the following preliminary steps before running the test case:
  1. sudo apt-get remove --purge p7zip
  2. sudo mandb
  3. sudo rm /var/cache/man/cat*/*
  4. sudo LC_ALL=C catman 1
  5. ls /var/cache/man/cat1/
  6. Verify that the list contains a few hundreds files with the extension .1.gz

  It seems that catman is using 7zr (which is installed with p7zip) as
  the name of the section for the packages in section coming after 7zr
  in alphabetical order.

  Reproduced in Karmic to Natty
  Hardy doesn't seems to be affected

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: man-db 2.5.7-6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.36-0.4-generic 2.6.36-rc7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.36-0-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct 21 00:08:42 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: man-db

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