On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:40:23PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > This ought to be a simple question to answer. I've just created a > package for gcursor (no ITP filed yet). It's a binary executable in > /usr/bin so it needs a man-page. However, there is none from upstream, > so I simply left the one generated by dh_make (renamed it to gcursor.1 > though) and hoped that things would happen automagically. lintian > complains about the missing man-page, so I add a line in Makefile.am: > > man1_MANS = gcursor.1 > > and a line to debian/rules to copy the file (inspired by the line for > docbook-to-man): > > build-stamp: config.status > ... > cp debian/gcursor.1 gcursor.1 > ... > > Still no luck though. could someone give some hints on how to get the > man-page to be installed?
If you have something.1 manpage then just put the following line in your rules file: dh_installman debian/something.1 It should be enough. In fact you have problably similar line in your rules file (if you used dh_make stuff). regards fEnIo -- _ Bartosz Fenski | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | pgp:0x13fefc40 | IRC:fEnIo _|_|_ 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Polska (0 0) phone:+48602383548 | Slackware - the weakest link ooO--(_)--Ooo http://skawina.eu.org | JID:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | RLU:172001
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