[Pkg-emboss-devel] Bug#423938: Bug#423938: Manpages missing - source misses emboss.manpages or `dh_installman debian/manpages/*'

[Charles Plessy]

Le Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:33:15AM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit :
> 
> The emboss package doesn't include the manpages you seem to have (and
> you seem to try to install in debian/rules). The manpages directory is
> AFAIK not automatically registered (this might be a nice feature of
> dh_installman) as manpage location. So you have two choices: (1) create
> emboss.manpages with content
> 
> debian/manpages/*
> 
> or (2) specify this location at the command line in debian/rules.

Dear Daniel,

I think that unfortunately EMBOSS does not provide manpages. The ones
you saw are copies from the UNDOCUMENTED (7) manpage, leftover from the
preliminary work of Matt Hope. We will remove them soon. However,
auto-generating manpages from the doc is definitely in our TODO list.
EMBOSS will not leave experimental without manpages.

EMBOSS programs are written in AJAX Command Definition files (this has
nothing to do with Web2.0) and I will try to parse these ACD files to
generate the manpages (A parser is included in the emboss-explorer
pacakges, which is under preparation). Do you think that it would make
sense to generate intermediary DocBook files, or to directly generate
nroff files?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan