DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(S)       Debhelper       DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(S)



NAME
       dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer

SYNOPSIS
       dh_installmanpages [debhelper options] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_installmanpages is a debhelper program that is respon-
       sible for automatically installing man pages into
       usr/share/man/ and usr/X11R6/man/ in package build direc-
       tories.

       This is a DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the
       rest of debhelper. You are encouraged to use dh_install-
       man(n) instead.

       dh_installmanpages scans the current directory and all
       subdirectories for filenames that look like man pages.
       (Note that only real files are looked at; symlinks are
       ignored.) It uses file(e) to verify that the files are in
       the correct format. Then, based on the files' extensions,
       it installs them into the correct man directory.

       All filenames specified as parameters will be skipped by
       dh_installmanpages.  This is useful if by default it
       installs some man pages that you do not want to be
       installed.

       After the man page installation step, dh_installmanpages
       will check to see if any of the man pages are ".so" links.
       If so, it changes them to symlinks.

OPTIONS
       file ...
           Do not install these files as man pages, even if they
           look like valid man pages.

BUGS
       dh_installmanpages will install the man pages it finds
       into all packages you tell it to act on, since it can't
       tell what package the man pages belong in. This is almost
       never what you really want (use -p to work around this, or
       use the much better dh_installman(n) program instead).

       Files ending in .man will be ignored.

       Files specified as parameters that contain spaces in their
       filenames will not be processed properly.

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(r)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>



4.0.2                       2001-12-21      DH_INSTALLMANPAGES(S)