On Sunday 14 Oct 2001 11:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm the upstream maintainer for a package, but i'm add the initial > debian support too. i built a deb, but lintian 1.20.16 is > complaining: > > ** problem1: > > E: redael: binary-without-manpage redael > E: redael: binary-without-manpage redael-filmview > W: redael: file-in-unusual-dir share/man/man1/redael.1 > W: redael: file-in-unusual-dir share/man/man1/redael-filmview.1 > > This seems really silly. Do i need to pass some options to > dh_installman? i read the man page, but my impression is that > dh_installman is designed for upstream packages that don't have man > pages. i'm missing something really obvious.
No, dh_installman is for all manpages. you just tell it what manpages to install. Where did share/man/man1/redael.1 come from? that should be usr/share/man/man1/redael.1 > > ** problem2: > > W: redael: package-contains-upstream-install-documentation > usr/share/doc/redael/INSTALL E: redael: symlink-should-be-relative > usr/share/doc/redael/INSTALL /usr/share/automake/INSTALL > > A generic INSTALL is required by GNU standards, no? i'm using > autotools to build stuff. Should i replace the symlink with a copy > of the file? No. INSTALL belongs in the source package. Not the binary package from policy 13.3: It is often a good idea to put text information files (`README's, changelogs, and so forth) that come with the source package in `/usr/share/doc/<package>' in the binary package. However, you don't need to install the instructions for building and installing the package, of course! -- Stephen Stafford finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get gpg public key