Bug#139020: debhelper: [PATCH] dh_installman: support gzipped file in .so links

[Martin Habets]

Package: debhelper
Version: 4.2.32
Followup-For: Bug #139020

I got around this problem with the patch below. Basically, it checks
for a gzip-ed version of the file in the .so line.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-mph
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.15-6     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf-utils                 1.4.30.13  debconf utilities
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.10.28    Package building tools for Debian
ii  file                          4.12-1     Determines file type using "magic"
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  html2text                     1.3.2a-2   An advanced HTML to text converter
ii  perl                          5.8.4-8    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  po-debconf                    0.8.23     manage translated Debconf template

-- no debconf information

--- /usr/bin/dh_installman      2004-02-09 04:35:04.000000000 +0000
+++ ./dh_installman     2005-07-31 17:40:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -201,6 +201,12 @@
                else {
                        $solink="../$solink";
                }
+               if (! -f $solink && -f $solink.'.gz') {
+                       $solink = $solink . '.gz';
+               }
+               if (! -f $solink) {
+                       error($_ . " refers to non-existant file " . $solink);
+               }
        
                push @sofiles,"$File::Find::dir/$_";
                push @sodests,$solink;