Hi, and thank you for your answer. Le mercredi 24 août 2005 à 12:13 +0200, jano kupec a écrit : > Hi, i think you'll find the anwer here: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.1 Sure, I haven't seen what is told about symlinks! However, it is not very clear that several binaries can 'share' the same man page. Considering the dpkg-dev example, I think it should be all right. > i also agree that one man page and several symlinks is better idea You confort my choice then ;-) > jano Julien > > -----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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