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[help] Tix: seeking advice for #394635
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| Hi there, fellow DDs, Debian enthusiasts and groff experts,
I am looking at #394635. My eyes are starting to bleed. This bug is not
even RC, but it is ugly, and I would hate to ship Etch with it.
All the man pages for this package use macros, sitting in a file called
man.macros. I have no idea where to install this file, or how to tell
the man pages where to look for this file once I manage to install it
somewhere that is not insane and ugly.
My falied attempts to bring some sanity to this issue are found here:
http://www.amayita.com/debian/1_spo....0/debian/rules
I would very much appreciate a patch, pointer, hint, or hug.
Thanks in advance!
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| Matthew Vernon 2006-10-30, 7:23 am |
| Amaya <amaya@debian.org> writes:
> Hi there, fellow DDs, Debian enthusiasts and groff experts,
>
> I am looking at #394635. My eyes are starting to bleed. This bug is not
> even RC, but it is ugly, and I would hate to ship Etch with it.
>
> All the man pages for this package use macros, sitting in a file called
> man.macros. I have no idea where to install this file, or how to tell
> the man pages where to look for this file once I manage to install it
> somewhere that is not insane and ugly.
>
> My falied attempts to bring some sanity to this issue are found here:
> http://www.amayita.com/debian/1_spo....0/debian/rules
So you've put the macros file as /usr/share/man/tixman.macros. That's
sensible. Now you want the manpages to use this file?
The thing to do is to edit the man-pages to the line that says:
..so man.macros
becomes:
..so tixman.macros
Doing this with sed in the rules file should be pretty
straightforward.
HTH,
Matthew
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| Hi Matthew,
Matthew Vernon wrote:
> So you've put the macros file as /usr/share/man/tixman.macros. That's
> sensible.
Thanks for confirming this.
> Now you want the manpages to use this file?
> The thing to do is to edit the man-pages to the line that says:
> .so man.macros
> becomes:
> .so tixman.macros
> Doing this with sed in the rules file should be pretty
> straightforward.
I already did that by hand. I guess I am a bit dumb when it comes to
automating stuff.
The problem is that the macros file gets installed as:
/usr/share/man/tixman.macros.gz
My concern is that this file gets compressed, and I have tried to
manually uncompress it, and leave it compressed. There seems to be no
difference in how the manpages are displayed. Or I can't really spot it.
Any advice?
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| Also lintian is screaming at me for various reasons:
http://www.amayita.com/debian/1_sponsored/tix/lintian
The only ones I can't fix are the $CURSE broken manpages.
Or the $CURSE broken way I am trying to make them work.
Thanks again for any hint.
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| Piotr Ozarowski 2006-10-30, 7:31 pm |
| Amaya wrote:
> The problem is that the macros file gets installed as:
> /usr/share/man/tixman.macros.gz
dh_compress -X.macros
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| Piotr Ozarowski wrote:
> dh_compress -X.macros
Thanks, that was helpful.
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