Package: debhelper Severity: wishlist
Hi, a lot of packages have manpages and symlinks to manpages in case a manpage handles multiple things that need explaining. This needs to be manually handled in the "debian/manpages" and "debian/links" files. If a symlink is listed in debian/manpage file symlink is followed and the file copied. Would it be possible do change dh_installman's logic to the following: - first copy all plain files listed in debian/manpages - then iterate though all symlinks in debian/manpages - if the target exists in the target directory, make a symlink - otherwise, copy the file This would save package maintainers from a lot of busy work, and is fully backwards compatible. Thanks for considering this. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.8.11-zgsrv20080 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: pn autotools-dev <none> pn dh-autoreconf <none> pn dh-strip-nondeterminism <none> ii dpkg 1.20.5 ii dpkg-dev 1.20.5 pn dwz <none> ii file 1:5.38-5 pn libdebhelper-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.5 ii man-db 2.9.3-2 ii perl 5.30.3-4 pn po-debconf <none> debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none>
