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Re: Silly question about man page



On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:40:23PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> This ought to be a simple question to answer. I've just created a
> package for gcursor (no ITP filed yet). It's a binary executable in
> /usr/bin so it needs a man-page. However, there is none from upstream,
> so I simply left the one generated by dh_make (renamed it to gcursor.1
> though) and hoped that things would happen automagically. lintian
> complains about the missing man-page, so I add a line in Makefile.am:
> 
>  man1_MANS = gcursor.1
> 
> and a line to debian/rules to copy the file (inspired by the line for
> docbook-to-man):
> 
>  build-stamp:  config.status
>         ...
> 	cp debian/gcursor.1 gcursor.1
> 	...
> 
> Still no luck though. could someone give some hints on how to get the
> man-page to be installed?

If you have something.1 manpage then just put the following line in your
rules file:

dh_installman debian/something.1

It should be enough.

In fact you have problably similar line in your rules file (if you used
dh_make stuff).

regards
fEnIo

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