Bugzilla Bug 29896

app-test/docbook-xsl-stylesheets ebuild is written in such way that manpages
subdirectory (with stylesheets for docbook2man conversion) is not installed.
This is obviously done on some purpose and not by mistake, because 1.62.0 ebuild
contains this comment:

        # manpages are excluded here because they arent fully supported
        for i in common extensions fo html htmlhelp images javahelp lib template
xhtml

I don't know what "not fully supported" means exactly (I didn't find any info in
bugzilla, Google or forums), they always seemed to work for me back on Mandrake
system and they do work if I modify the ebuild. OTOH, there are several reasons
to include it:
- it works without any problems at least in simple cases and so is genuinely useful
- it's part of the upstream package, the authors included it for a reason
- this omission breaks software that depends on docbook-to-man conversion, e.g.
  it's impossible to regenerate docs from CVS sources of Bakefile 
  (bakefile.sourceforge.net)

Can the manpages backend be added back please?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

okay, well first the explanation of my 'fully supported' comment. 

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=468779&group_id=21935&atid=373749
is a brief few posts to read

what i really meant was, do the manpages stylesheets 'fully support' the
conversion, there seem to be some .xsl's missing compared with the tools
to do conversion to other formats. and it seems, from you, that they do support
conversion fine in simple cases. which should alleviate my worries. they
just have a 'tacked on' nature about them to me. there is no mention of them
in any of the docs README/ChangeLog/WhatsNew etc.

however in light of all this, i dont have any particular opposition to adding
them, and so it seems that as they work, i will.

thanks for your bug, i've fixed 1.62.0 in portage.