Greetings. Some packages are currently affected by Arch bug FS#73728[1]. It seems that not all of the relevant package maintainers were added to the bug report, so I figured that I'd send the bug status to a mailing list and copy whoever is missing. I'm not sure if this is relevant to arch-dev-public, so I'm sending it to arch-general. Apologies if it's not the correct list. Here's a partial quoting of the issue[1]:

Both man-db and mandoc provide "man" and also conflict with each other.

And there are documentation-only packages which depend on "man-db" rather than on just "man".

This prevents installing both mandoc (instead of man-db) and these documentation-only packages at the same time.

Note: "man-db" provides only man(1) and related tools; the "default" man pages themselves are provided by "man-pages".

Suggested fix: Change all of the following packages to depend on "man" rather than on "man-db": * man-pages-zh_cn * man-pages-zh_tw * man2html * xorg-docs Note: The following packages were already fixed[2][3]: * bat-extras * man-pages-cs * man-pages-da * man-pages-de * man-pages-es * man-pages-fr * man-pages-hu * man-pages-it * man-pages-mk * man-pages-nl * man-pages-pl * man-pages-pt_br * man-pages-ro Note2: In the case of man2html, it does not call man(1); you have to call it yourself and pass the output to man2html. From man2html(1):

Typical Usage:

man2html[-options]  < infile   > outfile

man topic | man2html [-options]  > outfile

I have tested it with both man-db and mandoc: $ yes | sudo pacman -Sdd man-db >/dev/null 2>&1 $ man /usr/share/man/man1/tr.1.gz | man2html >tr_mandb.1.html $ yes | sudo pacman -Sdd mandoc >/dev/null 2>&1 $ man /usr/share/man/man1/tr.1.gz | man2html >tr_mandoc.1.html The main difference that I noticed was that with man-db, everything is put inside a pre tag, while with mandoc it uses h2, b and pre tags for each section. So the output looks different, but at least the main content is present on both. Package versions: * coreutils 9.0-2 * man-db 2.10.1-1 * mandoc 1.14.6-1 Cheers, Kelvin [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73728 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/c4d5698c9f031547039a1... [3] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/c79b07ccfa1389d58bb69...