Saucy packages for zsh are missing manpages

[Vin Shankar]

According to the zsh site, "The main shell build already comes with manual pages and a Texinfo source". However, the zsh package in saucy (package version 5.0.2-3ubuntu6 - 'zsh --version' reports "zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)") does not include manpages, although the preformatted versions from zsh-doc are available through that package, providing a workaround.

It should also be noted that /usr/share/man/man1/zsh5.1.gz exists as a (broken) link to zsh.1.gz.

I have checked the zsh stable release tarball, and can confirm that /zsh-5.0.2/Doc/ therein contains the expected files, so I'm not sure why they're missing from the Ubuntu package.

I have also run an "apt-file search zsh.1.gz", and received only files from the 'fizsh' (a zsh frontend) and 'manpages-pl' (polish translations of manpages) packages, so it's not that the manpages have been split into some other package.

Presumably due to the manpages being missing from the package, http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/en/man1/zsh.1.html redirects to http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/en/man1/zsh.1.html - the manpage for zsh 5.0.0 from Raring.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.