5 dh_installman - install man pages into package build directories
11 use Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib;
15 B<dh_installman> [S<I<debhelper options>>] [S<I<manpage ...>>]
19 dh_installman is a debhelper program that handles installing
20 man pages into the correct locations in package build directories. You tell
21 it what man pages go in your packages, and it figures out where to
22 install them based on the section field in their .TH line. If you have a
23 properly formatted .TH line, your man page will be installed into the right
24 directory, with the right name (this includes proper handling of pages
25 with a subsection, like "3perl", which are placed in man3, and given an
26 extension of ".3perl"). If your .TH line is incorrect or missing, the program
27 may guess wrong based on the file extension.
29 It also supports translated man pages, by looking for extensions
30 like .ll.8 and .ll_LL.8, or by use of the --language switch.
32 If dh_installman seems to install a man page into the wrong section or with
33 the wrong extension, this is because the man page has the wrong section
34 listed in its .TH line. Edit the man page and correct the section, and
35 dh_installman will follow suit. See L<man(7)> for details about the .TH
36 section. If dh_installman seems to install a man page into a directory
37 like /usr/share/man/pl/man1/, that is because your program has a
38 name like "foo.pl", and dh_installman assumes that means it is translated
39 into Polish. Use --language=C to avoid this.
41 dh_installman will use man to guess the character encoding of each manual
42 page and convert it to UTF-8. If the guesswork fails for some reason, you
43 can override it using an encoding declaration. See L<manconv(1)> for
46 Any man page filenames specified as parameters will be installed into the
47 first package dh_installman is told to act on. By default, this is the
48 first binary package in debian/control, but if you use -p, -i, or -a flags,
49 it will be the first package specified by those flags.
51 Files named debian/package.manpages can list other man pages to be
54 After the man page installation step, dh_installman will check to see if
55 any of the man pages in the temporary directories of any of the packages it
56 is acting on contain ".so" links. If so, it changes them to symlinks.
64 Install all files specified by command line parameters in ALL packages
67 =item B<--language>=ll
69 Use this to specify that the man pages being acted on are written in the
74 Install these man pages into the first package acted on. (Or in all
75 packages if -A is specified).
81 An older version of this program, L<dh_installmanpages(1)>, is still used
82 by some packages, and so is still included in debhelper.
83 It is, however, deprecated, due to its counterintuitive and inconsistent
84 interface. Use this program instead.
93 foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
94 next if is_udeb($package);
96 my $tmp=tmpdir($package);
97 my $file=pkgfile($package,"manpages");
101 @manpages=filearray($file, ".");
104 if (($package eq $dh{FIRSTPACKAGE} || $dh{PARAMS_ALL}) && @ARGV) {
105 push @manpages, @ARGV;
108 foreach my $page (@manpages) {
109 my $basename=basename($page);
111 # Support compressed pages.
113 if ($basename=~m/(.*)(\.gz)/) {
119 # See if there is a .TH entry in the man page. If so,
120 # we'll pull the section field from that.
122 open (IN, "zcat $page|") or die "$page: $!";
125 open (IN, $page) or die "$page: $!";
128 if (/^\.TH\s+\S+\s+"?(\d+[^"\s]*)"?/) {
133 # Failing that, we can try to get it from the filename.
135 ($section)=$basename=~m/.*\.([1-9]\S*)/;
138 # Now get the numeric component of the section.
139 my ($realsection)=$section=~m/^(\d)/ if defined $section;
141 # If there is no numeric section, bail.
142 if (! $realsection) {
143 error("Could not determine section for $page");
146 # Get the man page's name -- everything up to the last dot.
147 my ($instname)=$basename=~m/^(.*)\./;
149 my $destdir="$tmp/usr/share/man/man$realsection/";
151 if (! defined $dh{LANGUAGE} || ! exists $dh{LANGUAGE}) {
152 # Translated man pages are typically specified by adding the
153 # language code to the filename, so detect that and
154 # redirect to appropriate directory, stripping the code.
155 ($langcode)=$basename=~m/.*\.([a-z][a-z](?:_[A-Z][A-Z])?)\.(?:[1-9]|man)/;
157 elsif ($dh{LANGUAGE} ne 'C') {
158 $langcode=$dh{LANGUAGE};
161 if (defined $langcode && $langcode ne '') {
162 # Strip the language code from the instname.
163 $instname=~s/\.$langcode$//;
166 if (defined $langcode && $langcode ne '') {
167 $destdir="$tmp/usr/share/man/$langcode/man$realsection/";
169 $destdir=~tr:/:/:s; # just for looks
170 my $instpage="$destdir/$instname.$section";
172 next if -l $instpage;
173 next if compat(5) && -e $instpage;
176 doit "install","-d",$destdir;
179 complex_doit "zcat \Q$page\E > \Q$instpage\E";
182 doit "install","-p","-m644",$page,$instpage;
184 complex_doit "man --recode UTF-8 \Q$instpage\E > \Q$instpage.new\E";
185 doit "chmod",644,"$instpage.new";
186 doit "mv","$instpage.new",$instpage;
189 # Now the .so conversion.
190 @sofiles=@sodests=();
191 foreach my $dir (qw{usr/share/man usr/X11R6/man}) {
192 if (-e "$tmp/$dir") {
193 find(\&find_so_man, "$tmp/$dir");
196 foreach my $sofile (@sofiles) {
197 my $sodest=shift(@sodests);
198 doit "rm","-f",$sofile;
199 doit "ln","-sf",$sodest,$sofile;
203 # Check if a file is a .so man page, for use by File::Find.
205 # The -s test is becuase a .so file tends to be small. We don't want
206 # to open every man page. 1024 is arbitrary.
207 if (! -f $_ || -s $_ > 1024 || -s == 0) {
211 # Test first line of file for the .so thing.
213 open (SOTEST, "zcat $_|") or die "$_: $!";
216 open (SOTEST,$_) || die "$_: $!";
222 error("failed to read $_");
225 if ($l=~m/\.so\s+(.*)\s*/) {
227 # This test is here to prevent links like ... man8/../man8/foo.8
228 if (basename($File::Find::dir) eq
230 $solink=basename($solink);
233 $solink="../$solink";
236 push @sofiles,"$File::Find::dir/$_";
237 push @sodests,$solink;
245 This program is a part of debhelper.
249 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>