Debian Bug report logs - #946702
Haphazard man page SEE ALSOs and footers

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

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Haphazard man page SEE ALSOs and footers

Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 07:46:49 +0800

Package: wireless-tools
Version: 30~pre9-13+b1

$ dlocate -man wireless-tools | COLUMNS=80 xargs -n 2 man | col -b | grep -A 3 SEE | egrep -v SEE\|^$
       iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).
wireless-tools                   4 March 2004                      WIRELESS(7)
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       ifconfig(8), iwspy(8), iwlist(8), iwevent(8), iwpriv(8), wireless(7).
wireless-tools                   30 March 2006                     IWCONFIG(8)
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       iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), wireless(7).
net-tools                        23 June 2004                       IWEVENT(8)
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       iwconfig(8), ifconfig(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8).
wireless-tools                 02 December 2003                     IWGETID(8) <<< I never knew this man page existed! That's because it is missing from the SEE ALSO of the others!
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       iwconfig(8), iwspy(8).  iwevent(8), iwpriv(8), wireless(7).       <<<"." should be ","
wireless-tools                   13 April 2006                       IWLIST(8)
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       iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwevent(8), iwspy(8), wireless(7).
net-tools                       31 October 1996                      IWPRIV(8)
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       iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwevent(8), iwpriv(8), wireless(7).
net-tools                       31 October 1996                       IWSPY(8)

Some list more, some less, not due to relevance, but instead accident.
Please just make sure each lists all the others!

By the wqy, half of the above say "net-tools", but that is a different package!
$ dlocate -man net-tools
5 ethers
8 arp
8 ifconfig
8 iptunnel
8 mii-tool
8 nameif
8 netstat
8 plipconfig
8 rarp
8 route
8 slattach

Maybe long ago they were born that way, but now it is wrong.

Message #10 received at 946702@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de>

To: 946702@bugs.debian.org, 946702-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Patch to fix 946702

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:26:48 +0000

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tags 946702 + patch
thanks

Please find the patch I intend to use in the NMU attached.

Greetings

           Helge
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