On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:03:58AM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> 
> We've never had help2man though, so nothing in that aspect has changed 
> with the man-db/db changes. IIRC, that's why we used to do that 'touch 
> doc/flex.1' on the flex package after we patched it in the current 
> stable book - so that it wouldn't try to use 'help2man' to generate new 
> man pages.
> 
 OK, so obviously at least one other package has a similar
dependency between the man page(s) and the code.  Makes the touch
sound more likely to be a reasonable thing to do.

 It's not strictly related to man-db, although the i18n changes all
went in at the same time.

Ken
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