Re: dh_maninstall isn't finding control (now the manpage)

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

hi nicolas and colin,

thanks for the help!   unfortunately, that didn't do the trick.  i set
DH_COMPAT to 3 (the value that man debhelper recommends).

  % pwd
  /home/p/debian/pdamaze/pdamaze-0.0.20011005
  
  % ls
  CHANGES.txt  Makefile    build-stamp      debian/  pdamaze.c      pdamaze.xpm
  COPYING.txt  README.txt  configure-stamp  images/  pdamaze.host*
  
  p@satan% ls debian/
  README.Debian  docs                 pdamaze.manpages            preinst.ex
  changelog      ex.doc-base.package  pdamaze.postinst.debhelper  prerm.ex
  conffiles.ex   init.d.ex            pdamaze.postrm.debhelper    rules*
  control        menu                 pdamaze.prerm.debhelper     watch.ex
  copyright      pdamaze/             postinst.ex
  dirs           pdamaze.6            postrm.ex
  
  % dh_installman debian/pdamaze.6
  pdamaze.6: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dh_installman line 98.
  
  % dh_installman
  /home/p/debian/pdamaze/pdamaze-0.0.20011005/debian/pdamaze.6
  pdamaze.6: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dh_installman line 98.


i'm kind of stuck here.  normally, i'd hack at the perl to force the issue,
but if there's something really wrong with how i'm doing things, i'd rather
not break dh_installman by strong-arming it to work.

any more advice?

thanks!
pete


begin: Nicolas Boullis <Boullis.Nicolas@libertysurf.fr> quote
> Hi !
> 
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:15:40AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > hello all,
> > 
> > when running dh_installman in
> > 
> > 	/home/p/debian/pdamaze/pdamaze-0.0.20011005/debian
> > 
> > which is where the man page is, i get the error:
> > 
> > 	p@satan% dh_installman ./pdamaze.6
> > 	dh_installman: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory
> > 
> > the control file _is_ there, right in between copyright and conffiles.ex.
> > the error itself makes it sound like you need to be in the upstream source
> > directory, so i changed directories to:
> > 
> > 	/home/p/debian/pdamaze/pdamaze-0.0.20011005
> > 
> > and now the error is:
> > 
> > 	p@satan% dh_installman pdamaze.6
> > 	pdamaze.6: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/dh_installman line 98.
> 
> Well, I think that you have to run dh_installman from the upstream
> source directory. But then, you have to tell it where the pdamaze.6 file
> is.
> Hence, you should try "dh_installman debian/pdamaze.6" from the upstream
> source directory.
> You may also want to set the DH_COMPAT environement variable, if you are
> using a compatibility level higher than 1. ("man debhelper" for more
> info)