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Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package



On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> 
> > 2) "binary-without-manpage a+" (error) I call dh_installman in debian/rules,
> > but it appears to have no effect.  I tried building the package with a file
> > called debian/aplus-fsf.1 (the same name as the package) and with a file
> > called debian/a+.1 (the same name as the binary) and in neither case did a man
> > page get installed.  There is no man page in the upstream source, the docs are
> > all HTML; this man page just refers to that.
> > 
> 
> dh_installman and dh_installmanpages work differently. Check their
> manuals. If you tried dh_installmanpages here you got all ok, I think.
> Or list mans in debian/package.manpages
> 
> 

Mmmm, the man page about dh_installman is quite obscure... 
Ok, you should write something like

debian/a+.1
debian/aplus-fsf.1

within debian/manpages or debian/a+.manpages

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine



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