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From: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.11.2-1
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:25:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5by1q327uh.fsf@ecclerig.inf.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <announce.87bkn097su.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (Achim Gratz via Cygwin's message of "Sat\, 14 Jan 2023 21\:32\:01 +0100")

Achim Gratz via Cygwin writes:

> The man-db package is updated to the latest upstream version 2.11.2.

Thanks for this.  

> ...

> The diagnostic output from the update is stored at
> /var/log/mandb-index.log, so you can check if there were problems on
> the last update.

A quick scan of this reveals 86 warnings:

  54 whatis parse for ... failed
  29 bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
   3 is a dangling symlink

Are any of these of any interest to ordinary users, as opposed to
package maintainers?

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-15 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-14 20:32 Achim Gratz
2023-01-15 14:25 ` Henry S. Thompson [this message]
2023-01-15 16:08   ` Achim Gratz

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