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Author: Edward Bartolo
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To: Rainer Weikusat
CC: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] netman: adding adequate help
Hi,

I think, the manpage should be part of netman-backend as this is a
dependency of netman-gui.

Where in the source's tree should I place the source for the manpage
and in what format should this file be? I can manually create a
netman-backend.manpages file.

Edward

On 30/01/2016, Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
> Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> writes:
>> I can now view the newly created netman page using the command:
>> groff -man -Tascii ./netman-0.1.1/netman0.1.1.man | less
>>
>> The man page looks correct. Now the question is: How am I going to add
>> the man page to my netman project?
>
> The file should have a section number as extensions, presumaby 1 (user
> commands) in your case. According to the documentation for that
> (dh_installman(1)), a file debian/<package name>.manpages listing all
> man pages can be used to have them installed automatically.
>
> BTW: The command
>
> man -l <filename>
>
> can be used to format and display a man page from some 'local' file
> instead of from the man pages directory tree.
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