'man mib2c' displays the wrong manpage

Bug #1111381 reported by David Jarvie
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
net-snmp (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
net-snmp (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

The command 'man mib2c' displays the manpage for mib2c-update instead of the mib2c manpage. I have viewed the mib2c manpage on the net-snmp project website, and have verified that it should be very different from the mib2c-update manpage.

Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.
libsnmp-dev 5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libsnmp-dev 5.4.3~dfsg-2.4ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic-pae 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 31 11:44:15 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: net-snmp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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David Jarvie (djarvie) wrote :
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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I've confirmed this and found that it affects Debian too. I've filed a bug in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/699450

Changed in net-snmp (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in net-snmp (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
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marco Pimentel (marcopspimentel) wrote :

try "man ls"

it doesn't work for me to...

now try "sudo su"
put your password

now "man mib2c"

:) magic!!! it works...

Changed in net-snmp (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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