On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:31:26PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > 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.
I think this is probably fair enough for now. If it becomes a problem, I'm sure it won't be too hard to fix. I've gone ahead and committed this. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
