Re: should main package binary manpage be symlinked to package name?
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:29:08PM -0800, Number Six wrote:
> If the main binary in a package is named "x" and the package is named
> "x-package", should I ship
>
> (a) a manpage x.1 ?
> (b) a manpage x-package.[1-9]?
>
> I'm pretty sure of (a). I think the answer to (b) is no, but I'm not
> sure? If yes to (b), what section?
I'd say (a). Manual pages are typically documentation for specific
commands. That's not so say that you might not *also* write an x-package.7
manpage describing the system as a whole, if the package contains several
binaries, and especially if it has it's own conceptual space. See
debhelper(7) and dpatch(7) for examples.
- Matt
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