George Danchev <danc...@spnet.net> writes: > There is no easy way for dh_installman to guess that optin.so as found > in source directory is actually a manpage content meant for inclusion, > so you should take the control yourself and install that files in place > from debian/rules either by copying it or by calling dh_install + > <binary_package>.install file containing something as follows: > > path/to/optin.so usr/share/man/man1 > > However there are two issues here: > > * optin.so should not be compressed since it is referenced to by other > manpages as `optin.so' as I see it, thus you should also call dh_compess - > Xoption.so -Xgenin.so and so on... in order to prevent that. > > * lintian would later complain that your package actually provides an > uncompressed manpages, since optin.so and friends are left in place > uncompressed as they are referenced that way. You can of course override > this, however I don't think that populating /usr/share/man/man1/ with > random named uncompressed files meant for inclusion is a sane way to go > or at least that would need a discussion and conventions agreed upon. A > better solution would to include compressed manpage files, however I'm > not sure if that is at all possible.
Another option would be to install the extra man page data into a /usr/share/<package> directory and then modify the man page to include it via its full path instead of expecting it to live in the man directory alongside the man pages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org