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NAME

6       dh_installmanpages - old-style man page installer (deprecated)
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SYNOPSIS

9       dh_installmanpages [debhelper options] [file ...]
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DESCRIPTION

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
21       for filenames that look like man pages. (Note that only real files are
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,
24       it installs them into the correct man directory.
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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
28       pages that you do not want to be installed.
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30       After the man page installation step, dh_installmanpages will check to
31       see if any of the man pages are .so links. If so, it changes them to
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OPTIONS

35       file ...
36           Do not install these files as man pages, even if they look like
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BUGS

40       dh_installmanpages will install the man pages it finds into all
41       packages you tell it to act on, since it can't tell what package the
42       man pages belong in. This is almost never what you really want (use -p
43       to work around this, or use the much better dh_installman(1) program
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46       Files ending in .man will be ignored.
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48       Files specified as parameters that contain spaces in their filenames
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SEE ALSO

52       debhelper(7)
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54       This program is a part of debhelper.
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AUTHOR

57       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
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