[Bug 1548477] Re: man seems to be using primitive 'more' rather than 'less'

[sudodus]

1. The next Lubuntu Xenial desktop i386 iso file (the current version
downloaded a few minutes ago) is still affected by this bug.

2. The current Ubuntu Xenial desktop amd64 iso file is also affected (at
least running live).

3. The current Xubuntu Xenial desktop amd64 iso file is also affected
(at least running live).

So the bug is not in the Lubuntu specific packages.

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Title:
  man seems to be using primitive 'more' rather than 'less'

Status in man-db package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When reading a manual page with man, I can only step lines forward
  with Enter or step pages with space. I suspect that 'more' is used
  instead of 'less', which makes it much harder to navigate in the
  manual documents. I think this bug has appeared recently (after alpha
  2).

  The last page of man man looks like this:

  SEE ALSO
         apropos(1),  groff(1),   less(1),   manpath(1),   nroff(1),   troff(1),
         whatis(1),  zsoelim(1),  setlocale(3), manpath(5), ascii(7), latin1(7),
         man(7), catman(8), mandb(8), the man-db package manual, FSSTND

  HISTORY
         1990, 1991 – Originally written by John W. Eaton (jwe at che.utexas.edu).

         Dec 23 1992: Rik Faith (faith at cs.unc.edu) applied bug fixes supplied by
         Willem Kasdorp (wkasdo at nikhefk.nikef.nl).

         30th April 1994 – 23rd February 2000: Wilf. (G.Wilford at ee.surrey.ac.uk)
         has been developing and maintaining this package with the help of a few
         dedicated people.

         30th   October   1996   –  30th  March  2001:  Fabrizio  Polacco  <fpo‐
         lacco at debian.org> maintained and enhanced this package for  the  Debian
         project, with the help of all the community.

         31st  March  2001  – present day: Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> is
         now developing and maintaining man-db.

  2.7.5                             2015-11-06                            MAN(1)
  lubuntu at lubuntu:~$

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: man-db 2.7.5-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.366
  CurrentDesktop: LXDE
  Date: Mon Feb 22 20:10:20 2016
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha i386 (20160222)
  SourcePackage: man-db
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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