Re: Bug#474529: Perl policy vs. the search order for .1{,p} manpages
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 05:12:53PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 09:34:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'd contend that you should simply divert the manual page in the same
> > way. It's almost always wrong to handle manual pages differently from
> > binaries in maintainer scripts - if you divert foo to foo.real, you
> > should also divert foo.1.gz to foo.real.1.gz. (Similarly for
> > alternatives.)
>
> Heh, quoting yourself in March:
>
> > Diverting corelist.1.gz would definitely be wrong.
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2008/03/msg00088.html
>
> But I see I failed to mention back then that /usr/bin/corelist itself
> is diverted too. I can see that this makes the difference here.
Indeed, I don't think I was aware of that (although I'm not sure how I
thought it was handled ...). Sorry for the confusion caused.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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