OK, we'll rename them and move them again.

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Ivan Shmakov <i...@siamics.net> wrote:
> fixed 733603 1:1.8.0-4
> thanks
>
>>>>>> Hakan Ardo <ha...@debian.org> writes:
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Simon Kainz wrote:
>
>  >> After inspecting avr-man, i see the line:
>
>  >> exec man -M /usr/share/doc/avr-libc/man "$@"
>
>  >> But the path /usr/share/doc/avr-libc/man is not created by
>  >> installing avr-libc nor is it by any other package.
>
>  > the manpages was moved there in version 1.8.0-4, currently in
>  > testing.
>
>         I’m thus marking the bug as fixed there (so it would be archived
>         when the current stable won’t be supported anymore.)
>
>  > In the version in stable they reside in /usr/lib/share/man/man3/
>
>         … However, I don’t seem to understand the choice of either
>         location.  Isn’t it customary to use /usr/share/man for
>         everything in Debian, possibly adding appropriate suffixes to
>         the filenames, as in: readline.3readline.gz, TIFFsize.3tiff.gz,
>         Encode::Unicode.3perl.gz, and thus, presumably, floor.3avr.gz,
>         random_r.3avr.gz, etc.?
>
>         Going this way, there’s no need for any MANPATH tweaking, and
>         even the manual page browsers that are not based on man(1) (such
>         as Emacs’ woman.el) will just work “out of box.”
>
> --
> FSF associate member #7257



-- 
Håkan Ardö


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