Splitting man pages

[blacksheep <blacksheep@lulli.net>]

	Hallo folks!	
	I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package.
	They have to include all the same portion of text for full explanation.
	A first solution I found was to provide an additional troff document
	which any man page would include as follows:

.so additional.1

	But lintian shout out something like:

WHAT IS THAT FOR ? You should not provide a mapage with no corresponding binary ! 

       For me it is _very_ important to provide such informations in a separate
       file, as further modifications will reflect on any page, without the need 
       for editing each one by hand.

       My advocate suggested a different solution; is it legal to write something 
       like:

.so /usr/share/<package-name>/additional.1

        in a man page ? What solution would be cleaner to adopt ?

	Thanks in advance,
	Paolo aka 'blacksheep'  	

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