Re: reference Debian package of multiple binaries sharing one man page

[Alexander Sulfrian <asulfrian@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello,

On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 08:20:35PM +0100, Norwid Behrnd wrote:
> However, there still is some detail I did not understand well enough; the
> additional line
> 
> .so man1/mdl.1
> 
> in my file /debian/markdownlint.1

I think you missunderstodd the instructions:

> Here is how to do it: If you want to have your man page available under the
> names `foo' and `bar' in section 1, then put the man page in foo.1 and have
> bar.1 look like this:
> 
> .so man1/foo.1

You will need a file mdl.1 with the following content:

.so man1/markdownlint.1

and markdownlint.1 should be the normal manpage without a .so line.


Alex