RE: dh_installman and X11 apps
On 10-Mar-2001 Wouter de Vries wrote: Hi, I was wondering how to install man pages in the X11 man directory with dh_installman. I have read the manual, but it is not in there. Lintian keeps giving me warnings about the manual being in the wrong place, so now I put the X11 app in /usr/bin (shame on me!).. Please help me out. You're not supposed to put the manpage wherever you want to, even if it is a X program. dh_installman puts the manpages into their respective sections, e.g. if you have foo.1, it'll be but on section 1. If you have foo.1x, it'll be but at /usr/X11R6/man/man1 for being in X's section 1. (Please correct me if wrong) -- Carlos Laviola - ICQ 55799523 pub 1024D/3516D372 2000-06-05 Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 3BE1 6591 C78C 2AA4 31DD AEEF 6406 0227 3516 D372 PGP signature
Re: dh_installman and X11 apps
Carlos Laviola wrote: You're not supposed to put the manpage wherever you want to, even if it is a X program. dh_installman puts the manpages into their respective sections, e.g. if you have foo.1, it'll be but on section 1. If you have foo.1x, it'll be but at /usr/X11R6/man/man1 for being in X's section 1. _Packages using the X Window System should abide by the FHS standard whenever possible_; they should install binaries, libraries, manual pages, and other files in FHS-mandated locations wherever possible. This means that files must not be installed into `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this is necessary for the package to operate properly. Current versions of debhelper abide by this by never installing manual pages into /usr/X11R6/man/ at all. After all, the location of a man page there is quite unlikely to be necessary for a package to operate properly. I've talked this over with Branden Robinson and I think debhelper is doing the right thing. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: dh_installman and X11 apps
On 10-Mar-2001 Wouter de Vries wrote: Hi, I was wondering how to install man pages in the X11 man directory with dh_installman. I have read the manual, but it is not in there. Lintian keeps giving me warnings about the manual being in the wrong place, so now I put the X11 app in /usr/bin (shame on me!).. Please help me out. You're not supposed to put the manpage wherever you want to, even if it is a X program. dh_installman puts the manpages into their respective sections, e.g. if you have foo.1, it'll be but on section 1. If you have foo.1x, it'll be but at /usr/X11R6/man/man1 for being in X's section 1. (Please correct me if wrong) -- Carlos Laviola - ICQ 55799523 pub 1024D/3516D372 2000-06-05 Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 3BE1 6591 C78C 2AA4 31DD AEEF 6406 0227 3516 D372 pgpb0w5HCik01.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dh_installman and X11 apps
Wouter de Vries writes: so now I put the X11 app in /usr/bin (shame on me!).. see policy 12.8: _Packages using the X Window System should abide by the FHS standard whenever possible_; they should install binaries, libraries, manual pages, and other files in FHS-mandated locations wherever possible. This means that files must not be installed into `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this is necessary for the package to operate properly. [...] -- things change. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dh_installman and X11 apps
Carlos Laviola wrote: You're not supposed to put the manpage wherever you want to, even if it is a X program. dh_installman puts the manpages into their respective sections, e.g. if you have foo.1, it'll be but on section 1. If you have foo.1x, it'll be but at /usr/X11R6/man/man1 for being in X's section 1. _Packages using the X Window System should abide by the FHS standard whenever possible_; they should install binaries, libraries, manual pages, and other files in FHS-mandated locations wherever possible. This means that files must not be installed into `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this is necessary for the package to operate properly. Current versions of debhelper abide by this by never installing manual pages into /usr/X11R6/man/ at all. After all, the location of a man page there is quite unlikely to be necessary for a package to operate properly. I've talked this over with Branden Robinson and I think debhelper is doing the right thing. -- see shy jo
