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

[Dan McGee]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Dan McGee schrieb:
>
>
> > 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
>
>  In the past we had makepkg move all manpages to /usr/man (for whatever
>  reason). Why don't we move them all to the FHS path now?

Because it was a hack in makepkg to move them. Regardless of where
they end up, it is a hack to move things and I'd rather keep these
hacks to a minimum.
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=9addd88a7d12c8c8445ec226e2837afe01e660b7

-Dan