David Martínez Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know that I earned a lintian error as follows:
> E: xserver-xorg-input-mouse: manpage-in-wrong-directory > usr/share/man/man4x/mouse.4x.gz > But I wanted to ship mouse.man in some place at least. Using a section other than 1 through 9 in the directory name violates a should in policy, so I wouldn't recommend this approach. > Why? It conflicts with mouse.4 from manpages: > MOUSE(4) Linux Programmer's Manual MOUSE(4) > NAME > mouse - serial mouse interface > CONFIG > Serial mice are connected to a serial RS232/V24 dialout line, see > ttyS(4) for a description. > DESCRIPTION > Introduction > The pinout of the usual 9 pin plug as used for serial mice is: > [...] > What should we do about this? I am thinking of bugging upstream, but I > would like Daniel's opinion for example, as you could have fallen into > this pit some time ago. You can install the man page in /usr/share/man/man4 with a .4x extension instead of a .4 extension to avoid the conflict that way but still use the standard directory. I'm not sure if that's the best approach; it's a little unintuitive for the user to find the man page that way. But there are other naming conflicts in Debian avoided that way. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
