packaging question: "binary-without-manpage"

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:03:08AM EST, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to package osmose
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/281839), mostly in order to
> learn a few things about packaging.
> I've been having a few rounds with lintian, and I'm down to one issue,
> namely "binary-without-manpage".
> 
> What is one supposed to do if there's no manpage provided with the source?

Write one, and put it in the debian dir, and use dh_manpages to install it into the package. There are plenty of examples to have a look at from many other packages in the archive.

Luke
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