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Re: Splitting man pages



On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:55:38PM +0100, blacksheep wrote:
> .so additional.1
> 
> 	But lintian shout out something like:
> 
> WHAT IS THAT FOR ? You should not provide a mapage with no corresponding binary ! 

That would be bad if some package someday provides a
/usr/bin/additional.

>        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 ?

Sure, why not? but maybe the section 1 isn't needed...

-- 
Joshua Kwan

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