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Colin Watson <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: Database-driven manual pager suite
System name: man-db
Type: non-GNU

Description:
man-db is a suite of software for viewing and managing traditional Unix manual 
pages. It was originally written in the early 1990s. It provides the following 
commands:

  man (the primary way of reading manual pages)
  apropos (search for text in manual page headers)
  whatis (print a short summary of a manual page)
  mandb (build a database of all installed manual pages)
  catman (format and store plain-text versions of manual pages)
  zsoelim (eliminate .so includes from manual pages)
  accessdb (dump a manual page database)
  lexgrog (check the validity of manual page headers)

The purpose of the project is to develop and maintain this suite, aiming for a 
maximum of usability and stability.

For historical reasons, there are two major free software implementations of 
man. This one is used by a number of GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian 
and SuSE, and by Debian GNU/Hurd.

man-db is currently hosted on SourceForge, but since I\'m increasingly 
uncomfortable with their attitude towards free software I would like to move it 
to Savannah.

The bug list for man-db is at:
  http://bugs.debian.org/man-db
Its (skeleton) web page is at:
  http://man-db.sourceforge.net/

You can download the latest distribution at:
  ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/man-db/man-db-2.4.0.tar.gz
and current CVS is here:
  :pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/man-db
    (empty password, module man-db)

Other Software Required:
An nroff/troff implementation (GNU groff recommended)
Berkeley DB (tested with db2 and db3)

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