Bug#1012760: gdm3: /usr/share/man/man8/gdm3.8.gz is actually the gdm-screenshot man page
rwright at hpe.com
rwright at hpe.com
Mon Jun 13 14:10:17 BST 2022
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.38.2.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: security
X-Debbugs-Cc: rwright at hpe.com, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-
debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii accountsservice 0.6.55-3
ii adduser 3.118
ii cinnamon [x-window-manager] 4.8.6-2+deb11u1
ii cinnamon-session [x-session-manager] 4.8.0-3
ii dbus 1.12.20-2
ii dconf-cli 0.38.0-2
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.38.0-2
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77
ii enlightenment [x-window-manager] 0.24.2-8
ii gir1.2-gdm-1.0 3.38.2.1-1
ii gnome-session [x-session-manager] 3.38.0-4
ii gnome-session-bin 3.38.0-4
ii gnome-session-common 3.38.0-4
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.38.2-1
ii gnome-shell 3.38.6-1~deb11u1
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.38.3-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.38.0-2
ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.55-3
ii libaudit1 1:3.0-2
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u3
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.30-7
ii libcanberra0 0.30-7
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.2+dfsg-1
ii libgdm1 3.38.2.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.66.8-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-4+deb11u2
ii libkeyutils1 1.6.1-2
ii libpam-modules 1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii libpam-runtime 1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii libpam-systemd 250.4-1~bpo11+1
ii libpam0g 1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii librsvg2-common 2.50.3+dfsg-1
ii libselinux1 3.1-3
ii libsystemd0 250.4-1~bpo11+1
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1
ii libxau6 1:1.0.9-1
ii libxcb1 1.14-3
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
ii marco [x-window-manager] 1.24.1-3
ii mate-session-manager [x-session-manager] 1.24.1-2
ii mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 1.24.1-1
ii muffin [x-window-manager] 4.8.1-1
ii policykit-1 0.105-31+deb11u1
ii procps 2:3.3.17-5
ii ucf 3.0043
ii vtwm [x-window-manager] 5.4.7-5+b1
ii x11-common 1:7.7+22
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+8
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 366-1+deb11u1
Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii at-spi2-core 2.44.1-1~bpo11+1
ii desktop-base 11.0.3
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+5
ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.20.11-1+deb11u1
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+22
ii zenity 3.32.0-6
Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn gnome-orca <none>
pn libpam-fprintd <none>
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.36.0-1
-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3
*** /home/rfw/bug-gdm3-manpage.txt
On bullseye, running "man 8 gdm3" provides the man page of gdm-screenshot,
rather than the desired gdm3 man page. It's easy to demonstrate:
root at edk805:/usr/share/man# man 8 gdm3|col -b|head -10
GDM-SCREENSHOT.1(8) Debian
GNU/Linux GDM-SCREENSHOT.1(8)
NAME
gdm-screenshot - take a picture of the screen
SYNOPSIS
gdm-screenshot [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
gdm-screenshot is a utility for taking screenshots of the entire screen
and saving them as PNG image files.
It is also easy to see the problem is in the deb package, rather than
the result of some sort of accident on my own system. To do this, I
downloaded the deb file and extracted the content:
apt-get download gdm3
dpkg-deb -X gdm3_3.38.2.1-1_amd64.deb gdm3
cd gdm3/usr/share/man
for x in man1/gdm-screenshot.1.gz man8/gdm3.8.gz ; do
> gunzip < $x > /tmp/`basename $x .gz`
> done
diff -C2 /tmp/gdm-screenshot.1 /tmp/gdm3.8
*** /tmp/gdm-screenshot.1 2022-06-12 19:32:55.255392830 -0600
--- /tmp/gdm3.8 2022-06-12 19:32:55.259421046 -0600
***************
*** 133,138 ****
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
! .IX Title "GDM-SCREENSHOT.1 1"
! .TH GDM-SCREENSHOT.1 1 "2020-12-18" "GNOME 3.38" "Debian GNU/Linux"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
--- 133,138 ----
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
! .IX Title "GDM-SCREENSHOT.1 8"
! .TH GDM-SCREENSHOT.1 8 "2020-12-18" "GNOME 3.38" "Debian GNU/Linux"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
And in fact we can see this same problem in the online version of the
gdm3.8 man page, that is
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/gdm3/gdm3.8.en.html
The same is seen in the testing and experimental versions,
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/gdm3/gdm3.8.en.html and
https://manpages.debian.org/experimental/gdm3/gdm3.8.en.html
respectively.
If I look back to the online version for stretch, I do see the
correct content for the man page at:
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/gdm3/gdm3.8.en.html.
--
Randy Wright Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Phone: (970) 898-0998 Mail: rwright at hpe.com
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