[Bug 1528885] Re: manpage of man refers inexisting section "The manual page system" in manpage of mandb

[Colin Watson]

It is not referring to mandb(8), but to the more discursive manual for
the package as a whole that you will find in /usr/share/doc/man-db/man-
db-manual.{ps,txt}.gz.  I'll have a think about how to make this more
clearly structured; it might be that the right answer is to migrate the
package manual into a section 7 manual page, as it's a bit awkwardly
laid out right now.

** Package changed: manpages (Ubuntu) => man-db (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: man-db (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: man-db (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- manpage of man refers inexisting section "The  manual  page system" in manpage of mandb
+ references to man-db manual are unclear

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Title:
  references to man-db manual are unclear

Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Quote from the `-M --manpath` section of the manpage of `man`: "A path
  specified as a manpath must be the root of a manual page hierarchy
  structured into sections as described in the man-db manual (under
  "The  manual  page system")." This section doesn't exist in the
  manpage of `mandb`.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: manpages 3.74-1ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 4.3.3-040303-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Wed Dec 23 16:40:11 2015
  Dependencies:
   
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-12 (11 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: manpages
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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