Re: lintian + man page question

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

begin: Stephen Stafford <stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk> quote
> On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 8:56 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > dear all,
> >
> > made my first deb package.  went fine.  checked it with lintian, and
> > lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage for every installed
> > executable.
> >
> > ok.
> >
> > i installed manedit and whipped up a placeholder manpage.  questions:
> >
> > 1. is there a way to get past the manpage requirement?   is there
> > some way of linking to the "undocumented" man page?
> >
> 
> No.  All executables must have a manpage
> 
> > 2. is it ok to include my placeholder manpage with the deb package? 
> > it really doesn't give any useful information at all.   just gives
> > the app name, installed files and the author.

hi stephen and mark,

thanks for replying!

point taken about the man page.
 
i'll flesh out the man page some more; the software is still in alpha, so
there's no rush.
 
> At a pinch I suppose it will do.  A proper manpage is better though.  
> If you write the text of it then I will convert it to groff for you.

sometimes it's nice to be spoonfed, but this is something i should learn how
to do.

another question though -- i took a look at the deb package for defendguin
(another game written by the same author).  the debian maintainer wrote the
manpage for defendguin (bill kendrick knows how to write games, but doesn't
know how to write man pages ;) ).

for the life of me, i can't figure out how the manpage gets "in there".   his
manpage is located in

	defendguin-0.0.6/debian/defendguin.6

but it doesn't get installed by anything.  i looked in the upstream makefile,
the rules file, the docs file.   well, let's just say that i greped for
'defendguin.6' in all the files residing in debian/.   i can't figure out how
that manpage gets installed.

any illumination would be greatly appreciated!


thanks!
pete



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