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6 dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer (deprecated)
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9 dh_installmanpages [debhelper options] [file ...]
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12 dh_installmanpages is a debhelper program that is responsible for
13 automatically installing man pages into usr/share/man/ in package build
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16 This is a DWIM-style program, with an interface unlike the rest of
17 debhelper. It is deprecated, and you are encouraged to use
18 dh_installman(1) instead.
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20 dh_installmanpages scans the current directory and all subdirectories
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22 looked at; symlinks are ignored.) It uses file(1) to verify that the
23 files are in the correct format. Then, based on the files' extensions,
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26 All filenames specified as parameters will be skipped by
27 dh_installmanpages. This is useful if by default it installs some man
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30 After the man page installation step, dh_installmanpages will check to
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40 dh_installmanpages will install the man pages it finds into all
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42 man pages belong in. This is almost never what you really want (use -p
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46 Files ending in .man will be ignored.
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54 This program is a part of debhelper.
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57 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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