Debian Bug report logs - #1012760
gdm3: /usr/share/man/man8/gdm3.8.gz is actually the gdm-screenshot man page

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Package: gdm3; Maintainer for gdm3 is Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for gdm3 is src:gdm3 (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: rwright@hpe.com

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version gdm3/3.38.2.1-1

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Bug#1012760; Package gdm3. (Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:39:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: rwright@hpe.com
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: gdm3: /usr/share/man/man8/gdm3.8.gz is actually the gdm-screenshot man page
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:10:17 -0600
Package: gdm3
Version: 3.38.2.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: security
X-Debbugs-Cc: rwright@hpe.com, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-
debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                           0.6.55-3
ii  adduser                                   3.118
ii  cinnamon [x-window-manager]               4.8.6-2+deb11u1
ii  cinnamon-session [x-session-manager]      4.8.0-3
ii  dbus                                      1.12.20-2
ii  dconf-cli                                 0.38.0-2
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                   0.38.0-2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                     1.5.77
ii  enlightenment [x-window-manager]          0.24.2-8
ii  gir1.2-gdm-1.0                            3.38.2.1-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]         3.38.0-4
ii  gnome-session-bin                         3.38.0-4
ii  gnome-session-common                      3.38.0-4
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                     3.38.2-1
ii  gnome-shell                               3.38.6-1~deb11u1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]      3.38.3-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                 3.38.0-2
ii  libaccountsservice0                       0.6.55-3
ii  libaudit1                                 1:3.0-2
ii  libc6                                     2.31-13+deb11u3
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                        0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                              0.30-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                       2.42.2+dfsg-1
ii  libgdm1                                   3.38.2.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                              2.66.8-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                            2.66.8-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                3.24.24-4+deb11u2
ii  libkeyutils1                              1.6.1-2
ii  libpam-modules                            1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii  libpam-runtime                            1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii  libpam-systemd                            250.4-1~bpo11+1
ii  libpam0g                                  1.4.0-9+deb11u1
ii  librsvg2-common                           2.50.3+dfsg-1
ii  libselinux1                               3.1-3
ii  libsystemd0                               250.4-1~bpo11+1
ii  libx11-6                                  2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxau6                                   1:1.0.9-1
ii  libxcb1                                   1.14-3
ii  libxdmcp6                                 1:1.1.2-3
ii  lsb-base                                  11.1.0
ii  marco [x-window-manager]                  1.24.1-3
ii  mate-session-manager [x-session-manager]  1.24.1-2
ii  mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]       1.24.1-1
ii  muffin [x-window-manager]                 4.8.1-1
ii  policykit-1                               0.105-31+deb11u1
ii  procps                                    2:3.3.17-5
ii  ucf                                       3.0043
ii  vtwm [x-window-manager]                   5.4.7-5+b1
ii  x11-common                                1:7.7+22
ii  x11-xserver-utils                         7.7+8
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]               366-1+deb11u1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core    2.44.1-1~bpo11+1
ii  desktop-base    11.0.3
ii  x11-xkb-utils   7.7+5
ii  xserver-xephyr  2:1.20.11-1+deb11u1
ii  xserver-xorg    1:7.7+22
ii  zenity          3.32.0-6

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn  gnome-orca            <none>
pn  libpam-fprintd        <none>
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.36.0-1

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3


*** /home/rfw/bug-gdm3-manpage.txt
On bullseye, running "man 8 gdm3" provides the man page of gdm-screenshot,
rather than the desired gdm3 man page.  It's easy to demonstrate:

root@edk805:/usr/share/man# man 8 gdm3|col -b|head -10
GDM-SCREENSHOT.1(8)                                                    Debian
GNU/Linux                                                   GDM-SCREENSHOT.1(8)

NAME
       gdm-screenshot - take a picture of the screen

SYNOPSIS
       gdm-screenshot [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION
       gdm-screenshot is a utility for taking screenshots of the entire screen
and saving them as PNG image files.

It is also easy to see the problem is in the deb package, rather than
the result of some sort of accident on my own system.  To do this, I
downloaded the deb file and extracted the content:

  apt-get download gdm3
  dpkg-deb -X gdm3_3.38.2.1-1_amd64.deb gdm3
  cd gdm3/usr/share/man
  for x in man1/gdm-screenshot.1.gz man8/gdm3.8.gz ; do
  > gunzip < $x > /tmp/`basename $x .gz`
  > done
  diff -C2 /tmp/gdm-screenshot.1 /tmp/gdm3.8
*** /tmp/gdm-screenshot.1       2022-06-12 19:32:55.255392830 -0600
--- /tmp/gdm3.8 2022-06-12 19:32:55.259421046 -0600
***************
*** 133,138 ****
  .\" ========================================================================
  .\"
! .IX Title "GDM-SCREENSHOT.1 1"
! .TH GDM-SCREENSHOT.1 1 "2020-12-18" "GNOME 3.38" "Debian GNU/Linux"
  .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
  .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
--- 133,138 ----
  .\" ========================================================================
  .\"
! .IX Title "GDM-SCREENSHOT.1 8"
! .TH GDM-SCREENSHOT.1 8 "2020-12-18" "GNOME 3.38" "Debian GNU/Linux"
  .\" For nroff, turn off justification.  Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
  .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.


And in fact we can see this same problem in the online version of the
gdm3.8 man page, that is
https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/gdm3/gdm3.8.en.html

The same is seen in the testing and experimental versions,
https://manpages.debian.org/testing/gdm3/gdm3.8.en.html and
https://manpages.debian.org/experimental/gdm3/gdm3.8.en.html
respectively.

If I look back to the online version for stretch, I do see the
correct content for the man page at:
https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/gdm3/gdm3.8.en.html.

-- 
Randy Wright            Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Phone: (970) 898-0998   Mail: rwright@hpe.com



Removed tag(s) security. Request was from Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 14 Jun 2022 04:21:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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