Re: lintian + man page question

[Stephen Stafford <stephen@clothcat.demon.co.uk>]

On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 10:11 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>
> 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!

from the debian/rules for defendguin:
        dh_installcron
        dh_installmanpages
        dh_installinfo

It gets done by dh_installmanpages.

Hope that makes it a little clearer.

Cheers,
-- 
Stephen Stafford
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