Re: Call for help: moving manpages to share/man

Am 21.01.24 um 11:19 schrieb Gleb Popov:
> Ahoy there fellow porters!
> 
> portmgr@ is currently working on switching the directory into which
> man pages are installed from "${PREFIX}/man" to "${PREFIX}/share/man".
> It is quite a tedious process, as you might imagine. More than that,
> changing the default for a given build system instantly breaks all
> ports that use it, which means that this task can't be done
> incrementally in the main branch.
> 
> I've created a branch [1] in my own fork that switches mandir for the
> autotools build system and am inviting everyone to collaborate on
> that, until all the fallout is fixed. I'm asking port maintainers to
> check if they have ports with the "GNU_CONFIGURE=yes" knob, as these
> are most likely broken by the switch. Moin kindly prepared a list of
> affected ports along with their maintainers (thanks Moin!) [2]
> 
> In the most simple case you'll only need to change the pkg-plist, as I
> did in this example commit [3]. Make sure to bump PORTREVISION as
> we're altering the package's contents by this change. Also put the
> "Approved by: portmgr (blanket)" tag in the commit message, as the
> whole initiative was approved by the portmgr@ group.
> 
> If you want to collaborate either create a pull request on GH against
> my branch or just send me a git format-patch output for your change.
> 
> Thanks beforehand to everyone going to help!
> 
> [1] https://github.com/arrowd/freebsd-ports/tree/autotools-mandir
> [2] http://arrowd.name/manprefix-fail.maintainer.txt
> [3] https://github.com/arrowd/freebsd-ports/commit/cc288e9b742cd54640e06737334dd57d88d45f6d
> 


Ahoy, dear skipper!

Thank you for all the work you and others put into this change.

I am represented in Moin's list with three ports (maintainer rhurlin), 
all three of which are 'pure' Python ports:

- astro/py-ephem
- textproc/py-python-lsp-jsonrpc
- textproc/py-whatthepatch  (waiting for an update of setuptools)

All three ports do not generate any man pages. So I don't understand why 
they are included in the list. Or is it different if autotools is used?

Thanks in advance for any clarification.

Best wishes from a crew member,
Rainer