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Cc: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: man-db-2.11.2-1
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Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 14:25:10 +0000
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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?

ht
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