Hi all As you all know by now, Corinna is hunting for our vacant package maintainers. So may be it's a good idea to also have consensus about our X11 directory structure regarding man pages and documentation.
I propose that documentation in general should go to /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE even for X11 packages and the main man page directory should be dictated by the generic X11 tree, which is right now /usr/X11R6/man/manX (X=1,....) Any comments ? The situation right now is: Man pages not belonging to the x11-org packages: ================================================ WindowMaker-0.90.0-2 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/geticonset.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/getstyle.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/seticons.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/setstyle.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/wdwrite.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/wmaker.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/wmsetbg.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/wxcopy.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/wxpaste.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/geticonset.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/getstyle.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/seticons.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/setstyle.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/wdwrite.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/wmaker.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/wmsetbg.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/wxcopy.1x /usr/X11R6/share/man/sk/man1/wxpaste.1x tetex-x11-3.0.0-3 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/mf.1 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/mfw.1 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/oxdvi.1 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/xdvi.1 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/xdvizilla.1 libXft-2.1.6-1 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man3/Xft.3 x3270-3.2.20-1 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/x3270.1 <-- inconsistent in itself /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/x3270-script.1 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man1/x3270if.1 /usr/X11R6/share/man/man5/ibm_hosts.5 Docs pages not belonging to the x11-org packages: ================================================= /usr/X11R6/doc: fvwm-2.4.7 lesstif-0.93.94 libPropList-0.10.1 openbox-0.99.1 transfig-3.2.4 <- empty x2x-1.30 Xaw3d-1.5D xfig-3.2.4 xgraph-12.1 xpdf-0.91 /usr/X11R6/share/doc: xorg-x11-xwin freeglut-2.2.0 gv-3.5.8 libXft-2.1.6 nedit-5.5 tcm-2.20 WindowMaker-0.90.0 X-start-menu-icons-1.0.3 X-startup-scripts-1.0.10 x3270-3.2.20 XmHTML-1.1.7 xwinclip-1.2.0 Ciao Volker