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authorjoey <joey>2002-02-22 21:52:46 +0000
committerjoey <joey>2002-02-22 21:52:46 +0000
commit53775e799ffef734c2a4980eb2e2e1a9754b799a (patch)
treea729964006afb352ca438a7bfbf0dcd0383dac00 /dh_installman
parent5221e81cc5f195b32758617409cdc39e12277b82 (diff)
r511: * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
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@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ If dh_installman seems to install a man page into the wrong section or with
the wrong extension, this is because the man page has the wrong section
listed in its .TH line. Edit the man page and correct the section, and
dh_installman will follow suit. See to L<man(7)> for details about the .TH
-section.
+section. If dh_installman seems to install a man page into a directory
+like /usr/share/man/pl/man1/, that is because your program has a
+name like "foo.pl", and dh_installman assumes that means it is translated
+into Polish. There is currently no support for resolving this ambiguity;
+programs in debian should proably not have extensions like that anyway.
Any man page filenames specified as parameters will be installed into the
first package dh_installman is told to act on. By default, this is the