[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#740178: Bug#740178: openssl(1) refers to incorrect sections for subcommands

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 03:42:31PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Package: openssl
> Version: 1.0.1f-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> The end of openssl(1ssl) says:
> 
> SEE ALSO
>        asn1parse(1), ca(1), config(5), crl(1), crl2pkcs7(1), dgst(1),
>        dhparam(1), dsa(1), dsaparam(1), enc(1), gendsa(1), genpkey(1),
>        genrsa(1), nseq(1), openssl(1), passwd(1), pkcs12(1), pkcs7(1),
>        pkcs8(1), rand(1), req(1), rsa(1), rsautl(1), s_client(1),
>        s_server(1), s_time(1), smime(1), spkac(1), verify(1), version(1),
>        x509(1), crypto(3), ssl(3), x509v3_config(5)
> 
> but most if not all of these entries should be in section (1ssl). In some
> cases there are specific conflicts (eg passwd).

The debian changelog says this:
openssl (0.9.8a-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Call pod2man with the proper section.  Section changed
    from 1/3/5/7 to 1SSL/3SSL/5SSL/7SSL.  The name of the files
    already had the ssl in, the section didn't.  The references
    to other manpage is still wrong.

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 -- Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be>  Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:14:37 +0100

I submitted a patch to changes those references to upstream around
the same time, but it didn't get applied.


Kurt