Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
There is a nifty app/package called help2man.

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
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Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay. Is there any docs with the prog? Warren On Thursday 08 November 2001 06:01 pm, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 05:31:15PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > > Is there any kind of documentation that comes with it. If the > > program

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Warren Turkal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay. Is there any docs with the prog? Warren On Thursday 08 November 2001 06:01 pm, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 05:31:15PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > > Is there any kind of documentation that comes with it. If the > > program

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 05:31:15PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > Is there any kind of documentation that comes with it. If the program > has a --help, you may want to include its output. For the package I > did, I converted the docbook xml to manpage format. I'm not sure to see your point. The

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 10:11 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > another question though -- i took a look at the deb package for > defendguin (another game written by the same author). the debian > maintainer wrote the manpage for defendguin (bill kendrick knows how > to write games, but doesn't kno

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:11:46PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > another question though -- i took a look at the deb package for defendguin > (another game written by the same author). the debian maintainer wrote the > manpage for defendguin (bill kendrick knows how to write games, but does

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Stephen Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 8:56 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > > > made my first deb package. went fine. checked it with lintian, and > > lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage for every installed > > executable. > > > >

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 05:31:15PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > Is there any kind of documentation that comes with it. If the program > has a --help, you may want to include its output. For the package I > did, I converted the docbook xml to manpage format. I'm not sure to see your point. The

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:56:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > 1. is there a way to get past the manpage requirement? is there some way >of linking to the "undocumented" man page? Yes, but if you read undocumented(7) it says "this is here because it's a bug, there should be something

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 10:11 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > another question though -- i took a look at the deb package for > defendguin (another game written by the same author). the debian > maintainer wrote the manpage for defendguin (bill kendrick knows how > to write games, but doesn't kn

lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, made my first deb package. went fine. checked it with lintian, and lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage for every installed executable. ok. i installed manedit and whipped up a placeholder manpage. questions: 1. is there a way to get past the manpage requirement? is

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:11:46PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > another question though -- i took a look at the deb package for defendguin > (another game written by the same author). the debian maintainer wrote the > manpage for defendguin (bill kendrick knows how to write games, but doe

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Stephen Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 8:56 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > > > made my first deb package. went fine. checked it with lintian, and > > lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage for every installed > > executable. > > > >

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:56:57PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > 1. is there a way to get past the manpage requirement? is there some way >of linking to the "undocumented" man page? Yes, but if you read undocumented(7) it says "this is here because it's a bug, there should be something

lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, made my first deb package. went fine. checked it with lintian, and lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage for every installed executable. ok. i installed manedit and whipped up a placeholder manpage. questions: 1. is there a way to get past the manpage requirement? is