On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:11:06PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> --- policy.sgml.orig Sat Apr 21 14:05:54 2001
> +++ policy.sgml Sat Apr 21 18:15:04 2001
> @@ -6528,7 +6528,24 @@
> absolute filenames in <tt>.so</tt> directives. The filename
> in a <tt>.so</tt> in a manpage should be relative to the
> base of the manpage tree (usually
> - <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>
>
>
> <sect>
I'll second it, but please first figure out how we're going to make
the transition. Mass bug reporting, lintian test, announce on
-devel-announce, warning from mandb or what?
Julian
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