Re: dh_installmanpages: .so links?

[jdg@maths.qmw.ac.uk (Julian Gilbey)]

> Currently, debhelper offers nothing to automate making symlinks between
> manpages, you have to do it manually. If there's any great demand (more than
> 10 packages that would use it is a good start) for such a tool, I'd be
> willing to code it.

dh_installmanpages could look at a debian/manlinks file with the
format:

symlink.1  ln.1
hardlink.1 ln.1

to make symlinks from symlink.1 -> ln.1 and hardlink.1 -> ln.1.

I've used the .so hack in two packages already.

   Julian

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