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Re: How to let different programs use same man page



 ❦ 14 décembre 2014 04:15 GMT, T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> :

> What's the trick to have different programs use same man page when 
> packaging a Debian package? 
>
> E.g., say I'm packaging gzip, and I want both `man gzip` and `man gunzip` 
> goes to the same man file. How can I make it happen? 

They are symlinks. You can also create a manual page which is just an
alias to another one. For example:

.so man1/gunzip.1

dh_installman will automatically turn the reference into a symlink.
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