DH_INSTALLMAN(N)            Debhelper            DH_INSTALLMAN(N)



NAME
       dh_installman - install man pages into package build
       directories

SYNOPSIS
       dh_installman [debhelper options] [manpage ...]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_installman is a debhelper program that handles
       installing man pages into the correct locations in package
       build directories. You tell it what man pages go in your
       packages, and it figures out where to install them based
       on the section field in their .TH line and their filename
       extension. It also supports translated man pages, by look-
       ing for extensions like .ll.8 and .ll_LL.8

       If dh_installman seems to install a man page into the
       wrong section or with the wrong extension, this is because
       the man page has the wrong section listed in its .TH line.
       Edit the man page and correct the section, and dh_install-
       man will follow suit.  See to man(n) for details about the
       .TH section.  If dh_installman seems to install a man page
       into a directory like /usr/share/man/pl/man1/, that is
       because your program has a name like "foo.pl", and
       dh_installman assumes that means it is translated into
       Polish. There is currently no support for resolving this
       ambiguity; programs in debian should proably not have
       extensions like that anyway.

       Any man page filenames specified as parameters will be
       installed into the first package dh_installman is told to
       act on. By default, this is the first binary package in
       debian/control, but if you use -p, -i, or -a flags, it
       will be the first package specified by those flags.

       Files named debian/package.manpages can list other man
       pages to be installed.

       After the man page installation step, dh_installman will
       check to see if any of the man pages in the temporary
       directories of any of the packages it is acting on contain
       ".so" links. If so, it changes them to symlinks.

OPTIONS
       -A, --all
           Install all files specified by command line parameters
           in ALL packages acted on.

       manpage ...
           Install these man pages into the first package acted
           on. (Or in all packages if -A is specified).

NOTES
       An older version of this program, dh_installmanpages(s),
       is still used by some packages, and so is still included
       in debhelper.  It is, however, deprecated, due to its
       counterintuitive and inconsistent interface. Use this pro-
       gram instead.

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(r)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>



4.0.2                       2002-04-13           DH_INSTALLMAN(N)