-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Trent W. Buck wrote: >>> Probably, lintian is right. But, upstream ships man page gzipped... So, >>> patching man page >>> will require unpack it, make several sed expressions (or duplicate right >>> man in debian/ >>> dir), say dh_installman explicitly use patched man page instead of original >>> one... IMHO, >>> this minor warning doesn't cost these manipulations... Though, If you claim >>> that this is a >>> significant, I'll fix it (may be, you know less expensive way to patch >>> it?). >> You can use some shell magic: >> gunzip blah.1.gz >> sed -i 's/\B-/\\-/g' blah.1 >> [...] >> dh_installman blah.1 >> >> You should of course check that sed is really doing its job. > > Wouldn't it be better to generate an uncompressed manpage as part of the > appropriate debian/rules rule, and then use a standard debian/patches > utility (e.g. quilt) to escape only those hyphens that need it? > > Something like (completely untested): > > ## Upstream ships compressed files within their tarball; boy are > ## they silly. > clean:: > rm -f foo.1 > build:: foo.1 > foo.1:: foo.1.gz > gunzip -c $< >$@ > > Too complicated, as for me. For such a tiny package :) Moreover, mixing quilt (for one patch) and debian/rules methods would lead me to add build-dependency on quilt... And Vincent's method just works now :)
But thanks for look. - -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIXmTnchorMMFUmYwRAp5HAKDAHU6WiMsf4yYyPtJYdSQl6ePJSgCcD5xY DgNFPZ1Yy5q5QI0RBWY1Ja8= =43ul -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
