Re: bin/51062: Allow non numeric sections to be indexed and searched by apropos(1)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/51062; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: bin/51062: Allow non numeric sections to be indexed and searched by apropos(1)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:45:21 -0400

 On Apr 12,  3:40pm, er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost (er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost) wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/51062: Allow non numeric sections to be indexed and searched 
 
 | >Number:         51062
 | >Category:       bin
 | >Synopsis:       Allow non numeric sections to be indexed and searched by apropos(1)
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       non-critical
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 12 15:40:00 +0000 2016
 | >Originator:     Abhinav Upadhyay
 | >Release:        CURRENT
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | >Description:
 | Apropos(1) doesn't allow searching for man pages in non-numeric sections. Also, makemandb(8) indexes only the first character of the section number and drops everything else.
 | 
 | 
 | The attached patch fixes both the problems. It also includes changes for tickets bin/51038, bin/51039, and bin/51040.
 | 
 | I can probably send a smaller patch if there is no interest in the aforementioned patches :)
 | >How-To-Repeat:
 | apropos -s 9lua systm
 | 
 
 Please don't mix other patches together. Resubmit just the relevant change,
 
 christos