dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer (deprecated)
dh_installmanpages [
debhelper options]
[
file ...]
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.
-
file ...
- Do not install these files as man pages, even if they look
like valid man pages.
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.
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
Joey Hess <
[email protected]>