Hi, seems I did some duplication of work since I didn't check the BTS before writing a patch to do a very similar fix...
The attached patch generates manual page using help2man but adds static description, authors and see also sections. Do you feel that we could merge these two patches so that documentation for command line options would be generated automatically but description, environment, files and see also sections would be static?
>From 6a30fa83fe3a3f44336000ef5e7bb9e904a7b1b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindf...@iki.fi> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 17:27:57 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Generate gyp man page using help2man. --- debian/control | 2 +- debian/rules | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 6f96527..6efa6d0 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Chromium Maintainers <pkg-chromium-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Uploaders: Giuseppe Iuculano <iucul...@debian.org> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), python, python-support (>= 0.3) +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), python, python-support (>= 0.3), help2man, libparse-debianchangelog-perl Standards-Version: 3.8.4 Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/gyp/ diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 27a13f8..72685ac 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_ARGS_ALL += --prefix=/usr # We can follow gyp either on trunk or use the revision required by Chromium FOLLOW_CHROMIUM ?= 0 +PACKAGE_VERSION := $(shell parsechangelog -Fdebian | grep ^Version: | cut -d' ' -f2) + ############################################################################### # Tarball (get-orig-source & get-current-source) @@ -63,3 +65,15 @@ gos-pack: %: dh $@ + +override_dh_auto_build: + dh_auto_build + help2man --no-info --include debian/help2man.include --version-string $(PACKAGE_VERSION) --name "Generate Your Projects" ./gyp > gyp.1 + +override_dh_auto_install: + dh_auto_install + install -m 644 -D gyp.1 $(CURDIR)/debian/gyp/usr/share/man/man1/gyp.1 + +override_dh_auto_clean: + dh_auto_clean + rm -f gyp.1 -- 1.7.1
-Timo
