[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#1102453: Bug#1102453: libssl-doc: error when regenerating man pages

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Wed Apr 9 20:50:10 BST 2025


On 2025-04-09 10:18:05 [+0200], Eric Valette wrote:
> Package: libssl-doc
> Version: 3.5.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.13.0-1) ...
> /usr/bin/mandb: warning: whatis for X509_CINF_new.3ssl.gz exceeds 8192 bytes, truncating.
> /usr/bin/mandb: warning: whatis for i2d_ASN1_GENERALSTRING.3ssl.gz exceeds 8192 bytes, truncating.

Could someone please explain how severe this warning is? I guess the
warning refers to the uncompressed file since the .gz one is below 8KiB:

| ~$ ls -lh /usr/share/man/man3/X509_CINF_new.3ssl.gz /usr/share/man/man3/X509_dup.3ssl.gz
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   16 Apr  8 21:15 /usr/share/man/man3/X509_CINF_new.3ssl.gz -> X509_dup.3ssl.gz
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,3K Apr  8 21:15 /usr/share/man/man3/X509_dup.3ssl.gz
| ~$ ls -lh /usr/share/man/man3/i2d_ASN1_GENERALSTRING.3ssl.gz /usr/share/man/man3/d2i_X509.3ssl.gz
| -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6,8K Apr  8 21:15 /usr/share/man/man3/d2i_X509.3ssl.gz
| lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   16 Apr  8 21:15 /usr/share/man/man3/i2d_ASN1_GENERALSTRING.3ssl.gz -> d2i_X509.3ssl.gz

Sebastian



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