xenial (1) dh_installmanpages.1.gz

Provided by: debhelper_9.20160115ubuntu3_all bug

NAME
       dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer (deprecated)


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


DESCRIPTION
       dh_installmanpages is a debhelper program that is responsible for automatically installing man pages into
       usr/share/man/ in package build directories.

       This is a DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the rest of debhelper. It is deprecated, and you
       are encouraged to use dh_installman(1) 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(1) 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(1) 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(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.


AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>