Re: Lintian and manpage for X app

1999-08-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 01:59:39PM -0500, Stephen R. Gore wrote: > I have written a manpage for sclient, and am about to attempt converting > it to html (for inclusion in /usr/doc/sclient/html). I have one problem > still: dh_installmanpages installs the manpage in /usr/man instead of > /usr/X11R

Re: Lintian and manpage for X app

1999-08-29 Thread Stephen R. Gore
Stephen R. Gore wrote: > I'm trying to build a package of an X app (sclient), and it doesn't > have or need a man page (no command line arguments and a GUI help > system). I've enabled dh_undocumented in debian/rules. Lintian still > barfs with: > E: sclient: binary-without-manpage sclient

Re: Lintian and manpage for X app

1999-08-29 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Stephen R. Gore wrote: > I'm trying to build a package of an X app (sclient), and it doesn't > have or need a man page (no command line arguments and a GUI help > system). It _does_ need a man page! Every program needs a man page, because otherwise nobody knows what the prog

Re: Lintian and manpage for X app

1999-08-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 04:17:04AM -0500, Stephen R. Gore écrivait: > Is this acceptable/normal? Does a GUI app that uses GUI help need a > man page regardless? No, it's not acceptable. Please read man dh_undocumented. Yes you still need man page. dh_undocumented sclient.1 Cheers, -- Raphaël H