David Frey wrote: > > >And also, the /var/catman hierarchy cannot be purged although it is > >used only by man, because of the indexes and the subdirectories that > >are built in it after the installation. > >How can I tell to the man package that these are safe to be removed? > > Each package should purge it's own directories. So man has nothing to > do with it. You could consider to run a mandb in the postrm script.
The situation is complex: /var/catman is in the "man" package, but other packages add their subdirs and also mandb builds indexes thar aren't listed in the man package. If a user decide to purge "man" because he uses only xman or something new that will come, dpkg complains that /var/catman is not empty and doesn't remove the hierarchy. The user has no reason to purge the manpages, because he needs them. removing the /var/catman from man's postrm can solve this, but I think it will harm manpages that lists those dirs as installed. What if I build the /var/catman subdirs in the postinst of manpages (if man is installed) and remove all the /var/catman hierarchy in prerm of man? > > Only man uses the catman mechanism. My xman insists on reformatting > the manpages, even if there are cached catman pages around... > > >The xman program that comes in xcontrib doesn't understand locales. > >Should I raise a bug? > > Unsure about that. Yes? Maybe it's a configuration problem. What could I do, installing manpages, to let "automatically" xman find the pages in the new subdirs? Fabrizio -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://megabaud.fi/~fpolacco/ Join the UKI Linux Project! | | fingerprint 70 1A 72 2D 2B C8 A5 63 7A C2 CC E0 2A 54 AE DA | | finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
