Description of problem:

Manual man.7.gz packaged in wrong package

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How reproducible:

$ sudo mandb -c
Processing manual pages under /usr/share/man...
[...]
mandb: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man7/man.man-pages.7.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
mandb: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7
mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request
[...]

$ man 7 man
man: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7
No manual entry for man in section 7

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Context

None of the packages groff and man-pages-ja-20231115 that are informed by 'dnf provides *groff_man.7.gz' as providing the resource is installed.

$ man groff_man
No manual entry for groff_man

$ file -b /usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz
symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/man.7.gz

Extract of man-page MAN(1)
"7 Miscellaneous [...] man(7), groff(7), man-pages(7)"

$ gzip -dc /usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz
.so man7/groff_man.7

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Conclusion

/usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz file

It can be deduced that the

• package the file is part of is not correct.
• file is expected to be packaged in the groff and man-pages-ja-20231115 packages instead of the man-pages package.