dman does not work in 13.10

Bug #1243092 reported by Marius Gedminas
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Bug Description

Steps to reproduce:
$ dman man

Expected behavior:
I see the manual page of man(1).

Actual behavior:
No output at all, dman just exits after a brief pause.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: bikeshed 1.36-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.12.0-031200rc1-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 22 11:28:09 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-25 (453 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: bikeshed
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (4 days ago)

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :
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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :

That would be because http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages.gz/ does not know saucy exists.

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :

Workaround: use dman --release raring ...

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :

I pinged @dustinkirkland about this on Twitter.

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