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Re: Creating symlinks to manpages



2013/2/11 Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On 11.02.2013 13:46, Игорь Пашев wrote:
>> I have foo.1 in d/xxx.manpages, and only want to have
>> bar.1 -> foo.1, no matter where foo.1 get its location
>> or how it is compressed.
>
> You should not use symlinks, but source pages such tasks [1].
>
> Install a manpage like:
>
> bar.1:
> .so man1/foo.1

If you look at dh_installman, you will see that it replaces such dummy pages
with symlinks.


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