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Re: dh_installman and camel case name in .TH (repost)



Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> writes:
>> Following the man page of dh_installman:
>
>> | If you have a properly formatted .TH or .Dt line, your man page will
>> | be installed into the right directory, with the right name

> This is arguably a bug in te dh_installman documentation.  It takes the
> section component of the man page name from the .TH line, but the name
> component is taken from the basename of the source file.  So you need to
> rename funopen.3 to FunOpen.3, and then it should install in the correct
> location.

.... which is rather difficult to fix.

Is there a reason why the name is not taken from the manpage?

Best

Ole


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