RE: man pages and symbolic links
Hi, i think you'll find the anwer here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.1
i also agree that one man page and several symlinks is better idea
jano
-----Original Message-----
From: Julien Valroff [mailto:julien@kirya.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:04 PM
To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: man pages and symbolic links
Hi,
I am building a package with several binaries, and would like to know if
it is correct to build one unique man page for all the binaries, with
symbolic links poiting to the real file?
eg.:
/usr/share/man/1/binary.1 -> /usr/share/man/1/mainbinary.1.gz
Then, 'man binary' would yield to the same result as 'main mainbinary'.
dpkg-dev, for example, uses the same contents for several binaries (try
man dpkg-genchangelog and man dpkg-gencontrol for example) but not
symlinks.
All the binaries options would of course be described in this unique man
page.
Many thanks in advance for your answers!
Cheers
Julien
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