Hallo Magnus, * Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> [2004-07-23 18:34]: > 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 you dont have to. just put the gcursor.1 file in debian directory and add to the rules file dh_installman debian/gcursor.1 no editing of the makefile. > 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? regards nico -- Nico Golde - 310777820@ICQ nico@ngolde.de | nion@gmx.net | http://www.ngolde.de GPG: FF46 E565 5CC1 E2E5 3F69 C739 1D87 E549 7364 7CFF Is there life after /sbin/halt -p?
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