dh_installmanpages
old-style man page installer (deprecated)
Synopsis
dh_installmanpages
[debhelper options] [file ...]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
no example yet ...
... Feel free to add your own example above to help other Linux-lovers !
description
dh_installmanpages
is a debhelper program that is responsible for automatically
installing man pages into usr/share/man/ in package
build directories.
This is a
DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the rest of
debhelper. It is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
dh_installman(1) instead.
dh_installmanpages
scans the current directory and all subdirectories for
filenames that look like man pages. (Note that only real
files are looked at; symlinks are ignored.) It uses
file(1) to verify that the files are in the correct
format. Then, based on the files’ extensions, it
installs them into the correct man directory.
All filenames
specified as parameters will be skipped by
dh_installmanpages. This is useful if by default it
installs some man pages that you do not want to be
installed.
After the man
page installation step, dh_installmanpages will check
to see if any of the man pages are .so links. If so,
it changes them to symlinks.
options
file
...
Do not install these files as
man pages, even if they look like valid man pages.
bugs
dh_installmanpages
will install the man pages it finds into all packages
you tell it to act on, since it can’t tell what
package the man pages belong in. This is almost never what
you really want (use -p to work around this, or
use the much better dh_installman(1) program
instead).
Files ending in
.man will be ignored.
Files specified
as parameters that contain spaces in their filenames will
not be processed properly.
see also
debhelper
This program is
a part of debhelper.
author
Joey Hess
<joeyh[:at:]debian[:dot:]org>