after uninstalling liblapack-doc man pages have problem

[Martin Konôpka]

For some reason I decided to temporarily uninstall package liblapack-doc .
Then I tried the command

man zheev

which should work only if the package liblapack-doc is present on the machine.
I got the following errors:

man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man3/zheev.3lapack.gz: No such file or directory
man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man3/zheev.3lapack.gz: No such file or directory
No manual entry for zheev

This is not a correct behaviour; correct one would be just to type the message
"No manual entry for zheev"
and not the two lines before it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: liblapack-doc 3.2.1-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 18 12:20:42 2011
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lapack

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

For information, manpages will be removed from lapack packages in the 3.4.0 version

[Martin Konôpka (martin.konopka)]

Hmm. It is a pity in my opinion. Man pages of this kind are very useful. Imagine for example (not lapack example), that you forgot if the log function in C math library uses the number 10 as the base for the logarithm or the number e (Euler number). You type "man log" and you __immediately__ get the brief essence:

"log, logf, logl - natural logarithmic function"

No ballast, just the essence you needed, without any need of network connection; no time wasted by browsing, searching.

Lapack contains many functions and man pages to these functions are very useful because one can quickly see what are input and output parameters of a given function.

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

@Martin: I will be happy to apply a patch in the package to implement that.

[Martin Konôpka (martin.konopka)]

Thanks!

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

Hmm, reading again my sentence. I am not planning to do it. I think the new web based documentation is pretty good.
However, if you want to update lapack to generate manpages, please do! :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lapack - 3.4.1-1

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lapack (3.4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Upload in unstable

 -- Sylvestre Ledru <email address hidden> Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:32:17 +0200