Re: [HACKERS] Re: [ANNOUNCE] New man pages

Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>> Pages from multi-character sections are stored in the directory for the
>> first character. For instance: /usr/man/man7/select.7l.gz
>
>Oh! afaik that is one option; the man system in general could also
>handle man7l/select.7.gz right? You would update /etc/man.config to
>add, say, "7l" to the list of sections.
>
>But is is against Debian policy to invent new directories for pages?

6.1 Manual pages

You must install manual pages in nroff source form, in appropriate places
under /usr/share/man. You should only use sections 1 to 9 (see the FHS
^^^
FHS only defines 1 to 8; this may be an error

for more details). You must not install a preformatted `cat page'.

The FHS has a section (4.8.2) on manual pages, which we ought to follow
if possible: <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.8.2.html>

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