"Thomas Viehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section, >> however I would like to know whether this is Debian- (or >> Linux-)specific, so that we should change it during packaging, or >> whether I should ask upstream to change it. > No. > > Here's a random quote from the FHS: > In addition, some large sets of application-specific manual pages have an > additional suffix appended to the manual page filename. For example, the MH > mail handling system manual pages should have mh appended to all MH manuals. > All X Window System manual pages should have an x appended to the filename. > > The L probably stands for latex (OK, you knew that) and if they ship enough > manpages, they might want to add a suffix.
Okay, but then all LaTeX-related manpages should have that suffix (and I'd prefer T for TeX, catching much more manpages). And the files should be named accordingly, right? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
