Bug#780623: grub2-common: grub-install(8) repeats itself

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Mar 16 21:23:58 UTC 2015


Package: grub2-common
Version: 2.02~beta2-21
Severity: minor

doing "man grub-install" shows a manual page that repeats itself.

it has the following at the top of the document:

----------------------
GRUB-INSTALL(8)         System Administration Utilities        GRUB-INSTALL(8)

NAME
       grub-install - install GRUB to a device

SYNOPSIS
       grub-install [OPTION...] [OPTION] [INSTALL_DEVICE]

DESCRIPTION
       Install GRUB on your drive.

       --compress[=no,xz,gz,lzo]
              compress GRUB files [optional]
----------------------

and then at line 117, it starts over again with:

----------------------
              Usage: grub-install [OPTION...] [OPTION] [INSTALL_DEVICE]

       Install GRUB on your drive.

       --compress[=no,xz,gz,lzo]
              compress GRUB files [optional]
----------------------

I'm assuming this is a bug in the manpage generation somehow, but it
makes it confusing and awkward to search.

Thanks for maintaining grub in debian,

        --dkg



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages grub2-common depends on:
ii  dpkg                1.17.24
ii  grub-common         2.02~beta2-21
ii  install-info        5.2.0.dfsg.1-6
ii  libc6               2.19-15
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1  2:1.02.90-2.1
ii  liblzma5            5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

grub2-common recommends no packages.

grub2-common suggests no packages.

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