Re: Silly question about man page

[Erik Schanze <schanzi_@gmx.de>]

Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org>:
> 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
>
There is no need to hack any file. ;-)

You could create in debian/ a file gcursor.manpages.

The first line of it should be:
debian/gcursor.1

dh_installman takes the rest.


Regards,
Erik


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