man pages going to the wrong spot?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Dec 7 09:14:39 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 09:47 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 11/3/06, Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> >  So Matthias was looking over a yelp bug when we noticed that some X man
> > pages were getting installed in /usr/share/man/man3 instead of
> > /usr/share/man/man3x despite having the .3x extension.
What makes you think this is a bug?

AFAICT, neither the FHS, the GNU standards or the LSB mandate man3x/ nor
do they even mention it.

If yelp can't handle *.3x manpages in man3/, yelp is broken.

Ralf





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