blacksheep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hallo folks! > I had to wrote a lot of man pages for a multiple-binary package. > They have to include all the same portion of text for full explanation. > A first solution I found was to provide an additional troff document > which any man page would include as follows: > > .so additional.1 > > But lintian shout out something like: > > WHAT IS THAT FOR ? You should not provide a mapage with no corresponding > binary !
At a first glance, I couldn't find how it is achieved, but: There's a whole lot of packages that ship manpages for configuration files, for C functions or whatever (essentially everything in man sections 2,3,4,5,7). And lintian doesn't complain, at least not in any case. Perhaps you just need to split out the additional stuff into a manpage in one of these sections? Or you could have a look at bash. I don't know whether it's lintian clean, but it _has_ a manpage without a binary in sectin 1: builtins(1). Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
