Hi, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > - - generated manpages don't have a proper "whatis" entry > it seems like "whatis" entries are generated by the convention, that the > .NAME section includes the "name" of the application, followed by a dash > "-" followed by a terse description (the whatis entry) > in debian i fixed this by patching the sources to additionally add the > .DESCRIPTION fields (which are luckily quite short) as whatis entries.
Of course I would be interested in the patch. > - - generated manpages don't have dashes properly escaped > the manpages are full with "-" which should be replaced by "\-" > the fix in deployment is quite simple, as i only pipe the output of > - -help-man through a sed script. > otoh, it would be nice if this was unneccessary. Oops, didn't know that. Should be easy to implement though. I'm currently enjoying some lazy weeks in Southern Brazil. I hope my activity level will increase a bit when I'm back home :) Burkhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Gmerlin-general mailing list Gmerlin-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gmerlin-general
