[ovs-dev] Bug#850631: Manpage ovs-vswitchd.conf.db.5 installed into wrong directory

[Michael Stapelberg]

Package: openvswitch-switch
Version: 2.6.2~pre+git20161223-2
Severity: normal

Currently, openvswitch-switch ships with the following manpages:

$ dpkg -L mirmon | grep usr/share/man | grep '\.gz$'
/usr/share/man/man1/mirmon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pm/man3/mirmon.3.gz

$ dpkg -c openvswitch-switch_2.6.2\~pre+git20161223-2_amd64.deb | grep 'usr/share/man' | grep '\.gz$'
/usr/share/man/db/man5/ovs-vswitchd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ovs-pcap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ovs-tcpundump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ovs-vlan-test.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ovsdb-server.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ovs-ctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ovs-dpctl-top.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ovs-dpctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ovs-tcpdump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ovs-vsctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ovs-vswitchd.8.gz

ovs-vswitchd.conf.5.gz is in the wrong directory and cannot be read using man(1).

This is because dh_installman interprets the .db.5 suffix as a language.

Possibly specifying the --language=C flag to dh_installman fixes the
issue, but I couldn’t verify this, sorry.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)