Re: Fixing .so references in manpages

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 12:38:13PM +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote:
> I noticed that a package installs manpages with invalid .so references,
> e.g.
> 	.so foobar.0
> instead of
> 	.so man0/foobar.0
> 
> Is there infrastructure to cope with this or do I have to add SUBST blocks?

I'd avoid .so in general. It does not cope with gzipped man pages at all.

If it's a complete man page that's sourced this way, just install a
second copy under that name.
 Thomas