#1006939 .so links not converted for directly installed manpage

#1006939#5
Date:
2022-03-08 15:45:06 UTC
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Hi,

I have a package, adduser, that is Debian native and therefore the
manpages are installed directly from the doc directory:

[212/5303]mh@fan:~/packages/adduser/adduser (master *% u+5) $ cat debian/manpages
doc/adduser.8
doc/addgroup.8
doc/adduser.*.8
[213/5304]mh@fan:~/packages/adduser/adduser (master *% u+5) $

addgroup.8 contains a .so link:
.so man8/adduser.8

This ends up in the package verbatim as an so link instead of being
converted to a symlink as the docs suggest.

In addition, I would love to have the respective symlinks to be also
established for the respective translated manual pages, preferably
without having to list every language in a debhelper config file (prone
to be forgotten for new translation) and also without having to have a
dedicated .so link file for every translation (will also be forgotten
for new translations).

Could that be possible in a future version, so cut down on length of my
debian/links file and to reduce the possibility of forgotten symlinks?

Greetings
Marc

#1006939#10
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