Dear maintainer(s),

With a recent upload of manpages the autopkgtest of manpages fails in
testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of
manpages from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from
testing. In tabular form:

                        pass            fail
manpages               from testing    6.19-1
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. Unfortunately
there's nothing to see as the test is completely silent.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration to testing [1]. Can
you please investigate the situation and fix it?

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=manpages

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/ppc64el/m/manpages/75040984/log.gz

221s autopkgtest [12:02:22]: test manpages-dev.sh

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1146566@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org> (supplier of updated manpages package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:47:07 +0200
Source: manpages
Architecture: source
Version: 6.19-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org>
Changed-By: Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org>
Closes: 1146566
Changes:
 manpages (6.19-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Add output to autopkgtests for easier debugging
   * Use man3/tolower_l.3 to check for installed symlinks.
     The previously used symlink man3/tcflow.3 has been turned
     into a proper manpage, so the autopkgtest check that
     it is a symlink failed. (Closes: #1146566)
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