Re: Can't open man1/optin.so: No such file or directory
George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> writes:
> There is no easy way for dh_installman to guess that optin.so as found
> in source directory is actually a manpage content meant for inclusion,
> so you should take the control yourself and install that files in place
> from debian/rules either by copying it or by calling dh_install +
> <binary_package>.install file containing something as follows:
>
> path/to/optin.so usr/share/man/man1
>
> However there are two issues here:
>
> * optin.so should not be compressed since it is referenced to by other
> manpages as `optin.so' as I see it, thus you should also call dh_compess -
> Xoption.so -Xgenin.so and so on... in order to prevent that.
>
> * lintian would later complain that your package actually provides an
> uncompressed manpages, since optin.so and friends are left in place
> uncompressed as they are referenced that way. You can of course override
> this, however I don't think that populating /usr/share/man/man1/ with
> random named uncompressed files meant for inclusion is a sane way to go
> or at least that would need a discussion and conventions agreed upon. A
> better solution would to include compressed manpage files, however I'm
> not sure if that is at all possible.
Another option would be to install the extra man page data into a
/usr/share/<package> directory and then modify the man page to include it
via its full path instead of expecting it to live in the man directory
alongside the man pages.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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