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

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 09:50:10PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>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:

It means that the names after that point in the NAME might not show up 
in apropos, although it's possible the symlinks might be enough to cause 
that to happen anyway.

I do think we need some kind of limit here, but you can reassign to 
man-db if you want me to investigate raising it.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]