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authorNiels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>2018-11-13 20:55:33 +0000
committerNiels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>2018-11-13 20:55:33 +0000
commitf08f0bb1be5e4e93281c7121463b1b950e9e80d9 (patch)
tree85d6ee293534545564bb2b3f46b4f78e408eaa4d /debian
parentfff0f01c4ceb910ec4d0455718a2f60e22463792 (diff)
downloaddebhelper-f08f0bb1be5e4e93281c7121463b1b950e9e80d9.tar.gz
dh_installman: Check for man(1) in PATH rather than exec'ing
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'debian')
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f69a7edc..aa50c2d9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ debhelper (11.5.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
(which is what nohup(1) does). Thanks to Julian Gilbey for reporting
the issue and providing a sample patch for it as well.
(Closes: #913663)
- * dh_installman: Ditto.
+ * dh_installman: Check PATH for an executable man(1) rather than trying
+ to run "man --version". This avoids awkward warnings when man is not
+ available or when stdin is open for writing rather than reading.
-- Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> Tue, 13 Nov 2018 20:30:49 +0000