Re: Fixing .so references in manpages

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 01:38:54PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 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.

Or even just make it a symlink.

Joerg