Bug#780235: "man init" brings up systemd(8) despite /sbin/init coming from sysvinit-core

[Samuel Bronson]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-12
Severity: important
File: /usr/share/man/man1/systemd.1.gz

Dear Maintainer,

When I run "man init", I expect to see the manpage corresponding to
/sbin/init; since /sbin/init comes from sysvinit-core on my system,
that would be init(8), but I get systemd(1) instead.

This is seems to be partly because section 1 is before section 8 in
the search path, and partly because of the "whatis" entry:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
.SH "NAME"
systemd, init \- systemd system and service manager
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

which (given the path/filename and the stuff passed to .TH) presumably
gives man-db the impression that this file should be considered to
provide the init(1) manpage, rather than init(8) as it should be.

It might be time to finally ask the man-db maintainer to stop
including/using whatis entries in the database, or at least to use
them only as a last resort...

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-58
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1+b1
ii  libblkid1       2.25.2-5
ii  libc6           2.19-15
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-6
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-6
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-5
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.2-4+b1
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-12
ii  mount           2.25.2-5
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-58
ii  udev            215-12
ii  util-linux      2.25.2-5

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.16-1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-12

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

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