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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: wjenkner@inode.at, 16722@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16722: 24.3.50; `M-x man' does not handle case appropriately
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:36:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871riqqe9c.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sgb6rt5c.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:29:51 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I can only test the ezwinports case: the code proposed by Noam will
> cause that 'man' to return a non-zero exit status, so it sounds like
> an okay solution for ezwinports.
>
> The use case with uninstalled whatis database you could probably test
> on your system, by moving the database aside or renaming it?

I tried this on Debian bullseye, and "man -k" indeed had a non-zero
return code.

So I'll just apply Noam's patch and close the bug report.

Thanks for checking the ezwinports case.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-11 14:45 bug#16722: 24.3.50; `M-x man' does not handle case appropriately Drew Adams
2014-02-15 17:17 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-02-15 19:55   ` Drew Adams
2014-02-16  0:28     ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-02-16  3:04       ` Drew Adams
2014-02-15 20:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-16  1:08     ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2014-02-16  3:50       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-16 14:17         ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2017-02-01 19:25           ` Drew Adams
2017-02-01 19:50             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-02  1:08             ` npostavs
2020-09-25 10:21         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-25 11:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 11:36             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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     [not found]   ` <<834n40ayg4.fsf@gnu.org>
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     [not found]         ` <<85ob27ywed.fsf@iznogoud.viz>
     [not found]           ` <<c7667a78-58ba-4e9a-8eb9-c86727395b79@default>
     [not found]             ` <<831svhwv0z.fsf@gnu.org>
2017-02-01 22:36               ` Drew Adams

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