[debhelper-devel] Bug#761024: dh_installman: Please support translated man pages by looking at the pathname

[jre]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20140817
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

dh_installman already honors extensions like .ll.8 to detect the correct
location for the man page.

E.g. the following works as expected:
~~~~
$ dh_installman -v debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/wine-stable.de.1
install -p -m644 debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/wine-stable.de.1 \
    debian/wine-development/usr/share/man/de/man1/wine-stable.1
~~~~


It would be helpful to have a similar mechanism if the language is given
in the pathname of the man page (between usr/share/man/ and man1/).
So that instead of:
~~~~
$ dh_installman -v debian/tmp/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/man1/wine-stable.1
install -p -m644 debian/tmp/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/man1/wine-stable.1 \
    debian/wine-development/usr/share/man/man1/wine-stable.1
~~~~

one would get:
~~~~
install -p -m644 debian/tmp/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/man1/wine-stable.1 \
    debian/wine-development/usr/share/man/de/man1/wine-stable.1
~~~~


Thanks for debhelper!
jre



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Debian Release: jessie/sid
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  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils    2.24.51.20140903-1
ii  dpkg        1.17.13
ii  dpkg-dev    1.17.13
ii  file        1:5.19-1
ii  man-db      2.6.7.1-1
ii  perl        5.20.0-6
ii  po-debconf  1.0.16+nmu3

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Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  1.20140617

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