r511: * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363

[debhelper.git] / dh_installman

diff --git a/dh_installman b/dh_installman
index e558f266bd23f314d2e4d4599db67eb5b1173200..30fde7e2d3071b0dc8b268519caebadaf847da47 100755 (executable)
--- a/dh_installman
+++ b/dh_installman
@@ -27,7 +27,11 @@ If dh_installman seems to install a man page into the wrong section or with
 the wrong extension, this is because the man page has the wrong section
 listed in its .TH line. Edit the man page and correct the section, and
 dh_installman will follow suit.  See to L<man(7)> for details about the .TH
-section.
+section.  If dh_installman seems to install a man page into a directory
+like /usr/share/man/pl/man1/, that is because your program has a
+name like "foo.pl", and dh_installman assumes that means it is translated
+into Polish. There is currently no support for resolving this ambiguity;
+programs in debian should proably not have extensions like that anyway.
 
 Any man page filenames specified as parameters will be installed into the
 first package dh_installman is told to act on. By default, this is the