Re: Can't open man1/optin.so: No such file or directory
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Russ Allbery<rra@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
Extremely simple !
The patch is trivial and minimalist. Thank you !
--
Mathieu
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