Andrey Rakhmatullin <w...@wrar.name> writes: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 11:44:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The good news is that if you're using debhelper, you don't have to care >> about how man handles these indirections and can just use a symlink. >> Install the man page into usr/share/man/man1 under whatever name is >> canonical (possibly by using dh_installman), and then create a symlink >> in usr/share/man/man1 from the other man page name to that file. >> dh_installman will then clean this all up for you and create proper .so >> links and you don't have to care about the proper syntax. > Isn't it the other way around? The whole idea of using .so is to tell > dh_installman(1) to create symlinks. Oh, indeed, you're right and I misread that. So I think you can just use symlinks, period, and not worry about .so (although you have to handle nodoc builds correctly). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
