From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <uwe@kleine-koenig.org>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix manpage section of perl module documentation
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:17:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201218121721.GA23386@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201218115614.613227-1-uwe@kleine-koenig.org>
Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org> wrote:
> On Debian (at least) perl documentation is supposed to be installed in
> section 3pm. With the build system hardcoding this to 3 instead this
> results in a warning by the Debian package linter:
>
> W: public-inbox: wrong-manual-section usr/share/man/man3/PublicInbox::Git.3.gz:74 3 != 3pm
> W: public-inbox: wrong-manual-section usr/share/man/man3/PublicInbox::Import.3.gz:74 3 != 3pm
> W: public-inbox: wrong-manual-section usr/share/man/man3/PublicInbox::SaPlugin::ListMirror.3.gz:74 3 != 3pm
> W: public-inbox: wrong-manual-section ... use --no-tag-display-limit to see all (or pipe to a file/program)
>
> So use "$(MAN3EXT)" instead of "3".
Thank you, I was wondering about 3pm a few years ago but
forgot about it. I just checked my FreeBSD system and
that uses 3, so it's definitely system-dependent.
CentOS 7 also uses 3pm.
> Hello,
>
> I'm continuing to package public-inbox for Debian now. I'm not a perl
> pro, so take this patch with a grain of salt. The only indication I have
> that this patch is fine is that it makes the lintian warning go away :-)
Thanks again, and Debian is still my favorite distro. I'm not a
build system/packaging pro but the patch looks good to me.
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2020-12-18 11:56 [PATCH] Fix manpage section of perl module documentation Uwe Kleine-König
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