Re: help2man usage with pybuild / debhelper packaging workflow
On 06/03/2016 06:25 PM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> On 03/06/16 17:10, Wookey wrote:
>> On 2016-06-03 16:43 +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Are there any successful examples of integration of help2man with a
>>> pybuild / debhelper workflow for an arbitrary number of scripts?
>>
>> help2man breaks cross-building so is best avoided if you can.
>> Please just write a man page.
>
> Yes, it is mentioned here [1].
>
> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/ManPage/help2man
>
> And I don't mind for a handful of scripts. But what if you have 20 or
> 30?
Well, you could add a custom target to debian/rules that calls
help2man for all these scripts - so that you as a maintainer
can refresh the manpages every now and then. (And store them
in debian/ in the packaging.) That way, you don't break cross
builds (manpages are pre-generated), but still automate it to
a large extent.
Regards,
Christian
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