[arch-dev-public] FHS manpages (was: [signoff] iptables 1.4.0-1)

[Eric Belanger]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Dan McGee wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Eric Belanger
> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>
>> > Roman Kyrylych schrieb:
>> >> 2008/2/26, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>> >>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> >>>> In addition to a version bump, I changed the simple_firewall.rules file
>> >>>>  to a more generic and correct configuration.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>  Please sign off.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Seems to be OK here. Signoff i686.
>> >>
>> >> same here.
>> >>
>> >
>> > anyone for x86_64?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>  Man pages are not FSH compliant. No signoff from me.
>
> Do we have a namcap check for this yet? If not, the 'usr/man' part
> could be removed from directoryname.py and at least that check would
> then point out files in non-standard dirs.
>
> -Dan
>
>

I usually run tar -tzvf on the packages after building them.  That way, I 
can see where the files will be installed. It also useful, in this case, 
for checking where the man pages were placed. It would be good idea to fix 
namcap to have usr/man listed as a non-standard dir as you said.

Eric
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