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Re: manpage: Section 1L



"Thomas Viehmann" <tv@beamnet.de> schrieb:

>> It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section,
>> however I would like to know whether this is Debian- (or
>> Linux-)specific, so that we should change it during packaging, or
>> whether I should ask upstream to change it.
> No.
>
> Here's a random quote from the FHS:
> In addition, some large sets of application-specific manual pages have an
> additional suffix appended to the manual page filename. For example, the MH
> mail handling system manual pages should have mh appended to all MH manuals.
> All X Window System manual pages should have an x appended to the filename.
>
> The L probably stands for latex (OK, you knew that) and if they ship enough
> manpages, they might want to add a suffix. 

Okay, but then all LaTeX-related manpages should have that suffix (and
I'd prefer T for TeX, catching much more manpages). And the files should
be named accordingly, right?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie



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