man-db should be updated when installing new manpages

Ok, apparently they are there, but the whatis database isn't updated till cron does it. Shouldn't the install scripts update it?

changed description and source package. This is really a bug in all packages that install manpages.

This can only sensibly be done once we have triggers support in dpkg (see the dpkg-triggers specification).

There is no blueprint or specification given anywhere other than on the mailing list https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-January/023212.html hence putting it there.

I'm just waiting for triggers to be deployed in Debian's dpkg at the moment before doing this (since I don't want to have to diverge man-db from Debian in Ubuntu and thereby end up maintaining two branches). I have a working patch otherwise, which I expect to be able to deploy in the development cycle leading up to Ubuntu 8.04.

Any news?

Didn't make it for 8.04, I'm afraid (due to triggers being late to land in Debian for various reasons), but I've now committed it to my development tree and it will be in the next upload to Debian. I expect that to be synced into Ubuntu very shortly afterwards.

This bug was fixed in the package man-db - 2.5.1-4

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man-db (2.5.1-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add support for dpkg triggers per
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2007/04/msg00076.html. There's no
    versioned dependency on a trigger-supporting version of dpkg since this
    is an optional feature, but now installation of any package including
    manual pages will trigger a database rebuild at the end of the dpkg run
    once the new dpkg is available (closes: #133917, LP: #50110).
  * Build-depend on debhelper (>= 5.0.59) for triggers installation in
    dh_installdeb.
  * Configuration always needs to be a superset of triggering, so we always
    need to build or update the database on upgrade. After some thought,
    I've decided that we can live with doing this unconditionally in the
    foreground: mandb is faster than it used to be, hardware is faster than
    it used to be, and most builds from scratch will be due to installing
    from scratch when relatively few manual pages are installed. Thus, I've
    ripped out the two debconf questions dealing with this.
  * Move doc-base entry to Viewers (from Applications/Viewers).

 -- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Sync <email address hidden> Fri, 02 May 2008 02:18:38 +0100

I guess now the man-db entry in /etc/cron.daily is redundant then?

Non-.deb-installed man pages won't trigger the hook when they're installed. This makes removing man-db from /etc/cron.daily undesirable.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:11:57AM -0000, zain22 wrote:
> ** Changed in: man-db (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Released => Confirmed

Please explain why you reopened this bug.

I'm setting it back to closed for the time being on the assumption that
this was an accident. If you intended to reopen this bug, you need to
provide a reason.

 status fixreleased