Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >> - <tt>/usr/share/man</tt>).</p></sect> >> + <tt>/usr/share/man</tt>). If you do not create any links >> + (whether symlinks, hard links, or .so directives) in the >> + filesystem to the alternate names of the manpage, then you >> + should not rely on <prgn>man</prgn> finding your manpage >> + under those names based solely on the information in the >> + manpage's header. >> + <footnote> >> + <p> >> + Supporting this in <prgn>man</prgn> often requires >> + unreasonable processing time to find a manual page or to >> + report that none exists, and moves knowledge into man's >> + database that would be better left in the filesystem. >> + This support is therefore deprecated and will cease to be >> + present in the future. >> + </p> >> + </footnote> >> + </p> >> + </sect> > >I second this proposal.
Thanks for your support. There have been one second and no formal objections so far; is anybody else interested in this proposal? As far as I can see, policy is the right place for this, as this diff goes alongside a number of related comments about the decisions we've made on how man pages should be installed in the Debian system. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
