Re: [PATCH] Improve man page headers

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 06/08/2010 08:26 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 07:58:57PM +0200, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
>   
>> In a recent message sent to the list [1], I proposed the following
>> modification [2] to account for filename transformations in man pages:
>>
>> +    * Makefile.in (install-local): Use installed files on help2man command
>> +    line to account for file name transformations.
>>
>>
>> -      $(HELP2MAN) --section=1 -o $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1/$$dest.1  
>> $(builddir)/$$file; \
>> +      $(HELP2MAN) --section=1 -o $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1/$$dest.1  
>> $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)/$$dest; \
>>
>>
>> Could your approach also support filename transformations?
>>     
> I'm not sure how that would work.  I guess you'd need
> program_transform_name applied to the .h2m files.  Do you want me to put
> my patch in a bzr branch so that you can experiment with that?  I'm not
> sure I have time right now.
>
>   
I think it's not worth it. At least FreeBSD when packaging GNU coreutils
add 'g' prefix to tools but didn't change the manuals. Perhaps we should
just leave both man pages and info manual as they are and let the distro
care if they have a different policy.


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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