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.

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