Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed manual pages

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/45980; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compressed
 manual pages
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:40:44 +0530

 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Matthias Scheler 
<tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrot=
 e:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/45980; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: bin/45980: Manual file indexing no longer supports compresse=
 d
 > =A0manual pages
 > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:10:22 +0000
 >
 > =A0On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:00:00PM +0000, 
 > gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost wrote=
 :
 > =A0> Thank you very much for your problem report.
 > =A0> It has the internal identification `bin/45980'.
 > =A0> The individual assigned to look at your
 > =A0> report is: bin-bug-people.
 > =A0>
 > =A0> >Category: =A0 =A0 =A0 bin
 > =A0> >Responsible: =A0 =A0bin-bug-people
 > =A0> >Synopsis: =A0 =A0 =A0 Manual file indexing no longer supports compr=
 essed manual pages
 > =A0> >Arrival-Date: =A0 Fri Feb 10 23:00:00 +0000 2012
 >
 > =A0The problem isn't related to compressed manual pages. The new tool
 > =A0e.g. insists on having an ".Nd" section in each manual page.
 > =A0Without that section the file won't get indexed.
 >
 > =A0makewhatis(8) support this kind of manual pages without problems.
 >
 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Kind regards
 >
 > =A0--
 > =A0Matthias Scheler =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://zhadum.org.uk/
 >
 
 Hello,
 
 Yes, currently makemandb is not able to index compressed man pages. I
 believe it is possible to add the support for compressed man pages in
 the tool, but I think a better solution would be to get the proper
 support for compressed man pages in mandoc itself.
 
 It would also report a lot of error for man pages which consist of
 nothing but simple .so macros, Joerg has sent an email to tech-pkg to
 fix such man pages.
 
 Any other failure apart from the above two reasons should be a strong
 indicator a bug in the man page. The most common source of such bug is
 the NAME section, as you pointed out. These pages should be fixed.
 
 --
 Abhinav