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Re: More FHS discussion (Was: Uploaded debhelper 2.0.09 (source all) to master)



At 10:33 -0700 1999-07-07, Joey Hess wrote:
What is it? I'd love to make debhelper start using that directory by
default.

man-db has supported the FHS paths for months. From the changelog:

   * FHS compliance:
    - add /usr/share/man in /etc/manpath.conf
    - move /var/catman to /var/cache/man
      * user's changes need manual update.
      * absolutely DON'T SYMLINK /usr/man !! Otherways you'll get double
        entries in the database.
      * removed FSSTND keyword from manpath.conf and its handling in the
        code, as it was a hack messing up names.
    - start installing manpages in /usr/share/man
      Don't worry about old packages installing into /usr/man .
      man is designed to search pages on several directories!
    - modify {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts.

(And BTW, is /usr/share/X11R6/man supposed to be used for X man
pages?)

 No, X is still segregated for historical reasons.
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy)                    Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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