Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >> You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor >> put absolute filenames in .so directives. > >Heh. There's a man page somewhere in debian that looks something like: > ><a few man header-type things here> >.so /usr/bin/foo ><a few man footer-type things here> > >You can probably imagine what an unholy mess of groff pretending to be >shell comments and shell pretending to be groff comments are in >/usr/bin/foo. :-)
*shudder* That's just vile. Modulo a few cleanups it might be possible to use 'mandb --test' from lintian soon, or maybe to transcribe the lex code into a lintian check directly. If I do that, I suspect I might throw a warning in about the above. Quite a few man pages seem to use .so to pull in macro sets, as it happens - nmh pages use '.so /etc/nmh/tmac.h' to get the -mh macros, for instance. They should probably start using .mso instead. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
