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

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 - moreinfo unreproducible
Control: reassign -1 man-db

Am 08.04.2015 um 12:13 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
> 
> Am 10.03.2015 um 23:59 schrieb 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.
>>
> 
> I just tried to reproduce the problem in an up-to-date jessie chroot
> where sysvinit-core and systemd is installed.
> "man init" opens the sysvinit provided man page.
> 
> Which version of man-db do you have installed? Can you still reproduce
> the issue?

I did some further tests in a pristine, minimal jessie chroot (where
systemd-sysv is installed by default):

Installing sysvinit-core first, then man-db will give you
/usr/share/man/man1/systemd.1.gz on "man init".

Installing man-db first, then sysvinit-core will give you
/usr/share/man/man8/init.8.gz on "man init".

I think this points at an issue in man-db and some oddities regarding
its index/cache file in /var/cache/man/index.db.

Therefor reassigning accordingly.

Michael

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