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RE: man pages and symbolic links



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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