Laurent Bigonville: > Package: debhelper > Version: 11.5.1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > In dh_installman manpage it states that "In compat 11 and later, it > supports the same features of dh_install(1) and has the advantage that > it respects the nodoc build profile (unlike dh_install(1))." > > But if I'm putting the path to a directory in the debian/manpages file, > dh_installman fails with: > > Something like: > dh_installman: Could not determine section for debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1 > > Is that expected? > > Kind regards, > > Laurent Bigonville > > [...]
Hi, Thanks for the report. The "same features of dh_install(1)" is a reference to supporting --sourcedir and checking d/tmp by default. Though I can see that it could also be interpreted as it supports directories. I guess it would make sense to update the docs to say something like: """ In compat 11 and later, it also supports the default searchdir plus --sourcedir like dh_install(1) and has the advantage that it respects the nodoc build profile (unlike dh_install(1)). """ Would that have worked better for you? Thanks, ~Niels
