Re: man : work in progress
On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:46:03PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> People can start installing manpages into /usr/share/man instead of
> /usr/man .
What about those manpages from /usr/X11R6/man directory?
> Don't make these packages depend on man. If you're concerned
> about users not upgrading their configuration, grep manpath.config in
> postinst and issue a warning, or send email.
I don't think anyone should do this, especially if there's also
a keypress required after that message.
IIRC someone (you?) said man-db supports /usr/share/man directory
since '93. or such - so recompiling the package for convenience of
hamm, bo, etc users isn't neccessary?
> Need to modify lintian.
What about debhelper and debmake?
> * absolutely DON'T SYMLINK /usr/man !! Otherways you'll get double
> entries in the database.
Here's an item for future Potato Release Notes.
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