Bug#1005907: closed by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> (Re: Bug#1005907: xdg-utils: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open")

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 17/02/2022 14:27, Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> "man open" did give the the mapage of "open" sonce the beginning of time - it eve did last year. Now it does not, but "man open" goves the manpage og "xdg-open". Is this expected? Why?
> 
> You could enlighten me with your view of how the manual system should work to justify this kind of brakage.

There's no breakage here. There's a new command 'open' in /usr/bin/, handled 
through alternatives in Debian, with xdg-open being one of the alternatives (and 
the default in your system). Because of that, there's also a new manpage in 
section 1 for open, handled by alternatives as well. Thus man will prefer the 
manpage in section 1 to the one in section 2 if you don't specify a section.

There's really no bug here. It's really no different to `man printf` giving you 
the manual for /usr/bin/printf rather than the one for printf().

Cheers,
Emilio