On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 04:34:54PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 06:37:14AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> >  
> > Gotcha. Note that in the package I originally built, tc-bfifo and tc-pfifo
> > man pages were both there, but they were copies of the same file, not
> > symlinked.
> 
> I've played around a bit with this now in the updated package while
> rewriting parts of the packaging and it seems dh_installman
> will turn the symlinks into file copies when it runs
> "install -p -m644 ..." over all the manpages. :/

That's indeed what I experienced, and my build system then rejected the
package since it checks all files and complains if two are identical but not
linked together.

> Oh well... They should atleast all be there now in the git version
> of the packaging.

Cool. It wasn't a big deal, but since I spent some time debugging it and
fixing it, I thought I'd share :)

Best,
Marc
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