fixurjavainstall: Previous Fuji versions can accidentally wipe `/usr/share/man/man8`
Low severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 22, 2026
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EpicVon2468/fixurjavainstall
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Updated Jun 25, 2026
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jun 25, 2026
Reviewed
Jun 25, 2026
Last updated
Jun 25, 2026
Impact
Affects: Anyone who generates the UNIX man pages in Fuji <=
0.8.0build with thedevcrate feature.Consequences:
/usr/share/man/man8may be entirely removed & re-created without any of the previous entries.Patches
At the time of writing, no new version has been released on crates.io, due to an unrelated CI/CD publishing issue.
Due to the same unrelated publishing issue, no new GitHub Releases version has been released.
Workarounds
Do not run
fuji manualon non-devbuilds for versions <=0.8.0.Additional Information
This bug results from development-only code being accidentally left in for release use.
Previous versions of Fuji are still "safe" to use, provided that you do not run
fuji manual.There is no malicious potential from this, it's just a major annoyance to accidentally remove all your sysadmin man pages.
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