Debian Bug report logs - #387551
manpages-dev: mq_receive man page shows wrong return type 'mqd_t' (correct is ssize_t)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: manpages-dev: mq_receive man page shows wrong return type 'mqd_t' (correct is ssize_t)

Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:38:25 -0800

Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.39-1
Severity: normal


As the subject says.  Looking in /usr/include/mqueue.h the actual
return type is ssize_t, as expected.

Britton

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Architecture: i386 (i686)
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Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
ii  manpages                      2.39-1     Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin

manpages-dev recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>

To: Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>, 387551@bugs.debian.org, submit@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#387551: manpages-dev: mq_receive man page shows wrong return type 'mqd_t' (correct is ssize_t)

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:31:29 +0200

tags 387551 fixed-upstream
thanks

Betreff: Bug#387551: manpages-dev: mq_receive man page shows wrong return type \'mqd_t\' (correct is ssize_t)

> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 2.39-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> As the subject says.  Looking in /usr/include/mqueue.h the actual
> return type is ssize_t, as expected.

Britton,

thanks.  Fixed for upstream man-pages-2.41.

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 

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Message #22 received at 387551-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>

To: 387551-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#387551: fixed in manpages 2.41-1

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:17:03 +0000

Source: manpages
Source-Version: 2.41-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

manpages-dev_2.41-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages-dev_2.41-1_all.deb
manpages_2.41-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.41-1.diff.gz
manpages_2.41-1.dsc
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.41-1.dsc
manpages_2.41-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.41-1_all.deb
manpages_2.41.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.41.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 387551@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> (supplier of updated manpages package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:50:07 +0100
Source: manpages
Binary: manpages manpages-dev
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.41-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
Changed-By: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Description: 
 manpages   - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
 manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 386087 386214 387551 391402
Changes: 
 manpages (2.41-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version
     . Fix broken text in clog2(3) and clog10(3) (closes: Bug#386214)
     . Fix return type in SYNOPSIS in mq_receive(3) (closes: Bug#387551)
     . Fix wording referring in qsort(2) (closes: Bug#391402)
     . Added some TZ examples to tzset(3) (closes: Bug#386087)
   * New priority optional (instead of standard) after ftpmaster haven't
     told the maintainer but only let the archive suite complain about
     override disparity.  Oh, how I just love this cooperation between
     Debian developers.
Files: 
 43fd1bda2e5acf7b810b8242727f25b4 584 doc - manpages_2.41-1.dsc
 254e0064c533c9147947b8b8a39a2a4f 1203032 doc - manpages_2.41.orig.tar.gz
 fd81e37380921c399c9ec3e8ede289dd 53196 doc - manpages_2.41-1.diff.gz
 226ccf5514f995642597a61054755c50 487610 doc important manpages_2.41-1_all.deb
 cfcf144ab16f5098003ef5af6d25c31b 1229962 doc optional manpages-dev_2.41-1_all.deb

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