No manual entry for nail - dangling symlink

Bug #306725 reported by Kissmurphy
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nail (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

Dear People,

The nail man page is broken. Instead of seeing the man page in response to "man nail" I get an error saying there is a dangling symlink. Please see below.

The nail man page (/usr/share/man/man1/nail.1.gz) is a dangling symlink to /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom.1.gz however, there exists an heirloom-mailx man page (/usr/share/man/man1/heirloom-mailx.1.gz).

Thus one possible fix is:
  rm -f /usr/share/man/man1/nail.1.gz
  ln -s /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom-mailx.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/nail.1.gz

Investigation:
  prompt$
  prompt$ lsb_release -rd
  Description: Ubuntu 8.10
  Release: 8.10
  prompt$
  prompt$ apt-cache policy nail
  nail:
  Installed: 12.3+cvs20080629-1
  Candidate: 12.3+cvs20080629-1
  Version table:
 *** 12.3+cvs20080629-1 0
        500 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
  prompt$
  prompt$ man nail
  man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/nail.1.gz is a dangling symlink
  No manual entry for nail
  See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available.
  prompt$
  prompt$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/nail.1.gz
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-12-10 10:06 /usr/share/man/man1/nail.1.gz -> heirloom.1.gz
  prompt$
  prompt$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom.1.gz
  prompt$ ls: cannot access /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom.1.gz: No such file or directory
  prompt$
  prompt$ ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom-mailx.1.gz
  prompt$ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 41552 2008-08-05 11:45 /usr/share/man/man1/heirloom-mailx.1.gz
  prompt$
  prompt$ # man nail not works
  prompt$

Cheers!

Rob Coates (Kissmurphy)

Revision history for this message
Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

I can confirm that exact behavior. Since there seems to be enough information here, I will mark this bug as Triaged and let a developer take it from there. Thank you for reporting this bug.

Changed in nail:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
discont (discont) wrote :

Confirm. Ubuntu 9.04

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