From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>
Cc: mario.blaettermann@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
"Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Example in mansectf(1) does not work in Debian unstable
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 08:26:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aeR03CiauIDQ0Lr-@devuan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aeRk4J-i7pnkrdke@meinfjell.helgefjelltest.de>
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Hi Helge,
On 2026-04-19T05:15:12+0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello Alex,
> while translating the man page, I noticed that the example does not
> work in Debian unstable:
>
> root@twentytwo:/# man -w strtol strtoul | xargs mansectf "NAME|SEE ALSO" | cat
> Binary file (standard input) matches
>
> (The first part works:
> root@twentytwo:/# man -w strtol strtoul
> /usr/share/man/man3/strtol.3.gz
> /usr/share/man/man3/strtoul.3.gz
> )
This is because Debian still compresses its pages, which is something
I urge everyone to reconsider in this decade.
We had this discussion a few months ago, and Colin hasn't said anything
yet: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/aU1D0aL00gy1V-NX@devuan/>
I'll ping in that thread.
Have a lovely day!
Alex
>
> I put the Debian maintainer in CC, in case this is a Debian (only)
> bug, I could file a bug report there as well.
>
> Greetings
>
> Helge
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2026-04-19 5:15 Example in mansectf(1) does not work in Debian unstable Helge Kreutzmann
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