Re: [Pkg-grass-general] grass: only one man page
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 10:49:40AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> $ dlocate -man grass5.7
> 1 grass57
> $ dlocate -man libgrass5.7
> $ apt-cache policy libgrass5.7
> *** 5.7.0-4 0
> 500 http://bullhorn.org unstable/main Packages
> Maybe man pages can be generated dynamically upon installation, saving
> package size. But they should still be in the file list I suppose.
>
Man pages are mandatory in any debian package. They must be present
in the package or generated in postinst script at least.
The weird thing is that on the basis of a previous thread, they should
already be present in source form within the package. Maybe the package
is missing some important dependency which does not allow a proper
generation from the html doc.
> P.S.,
> $ diff3 /usr/share/doc/*grass5.7*/changelog.gz; echo $?
> 0. i.e., all the same; tiny, and dated 2002 too. No README.debian too.
>
That's definitively not a good thing.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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