Re: Multiple Binary and man pages
|| On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 00:16:26 +0200
|| Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:
sr> Marco,
>> My problem is this: for the two packeges I want to have two
>> different man pages (in fact "server-enhanced" has more config
>> options that "server") but it would nice if the man pages could have
>> the same name ("server.conf.5")
sr> Actually the server program itself should have the same name in both
sr> packages, so people can switch between the packages easily.
It already does, obviously.
>> I don't know how to resolve this, because in the /debian dir I can
>> put just one file named "server.conf.5"
sr> Hrm, the cleanest solution would be to send the manpages to the upstream
sr> maintainer and have him edit the build scripts so that the correct
sr> manpage gets installed.
It is not possible, because the man pages were written by
me. Pristine source come with no man pages :((
>> I already red dh_installman man page, but I didn't find any
>> suggestion to solve my problem.
sr> Then do it by hand -- i.e. without debhelper. Give the file an arbitrary
sr> name and copy it by hand (before the dh_installman call) to
sr> debian/server-enhanced/usr/share/man/man5/server.conf.5
I've tried the solution proposed by Joey (using the .TH field in the
man source), but it didn't work... so I think the only way is to do
it manually as many of you have suggested.
sr> Simon
Tnks
Marco
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