Bug 561098

Summary:	dev-lang/erlang installs man pages in /usr/lib64/erlang/man
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	QA
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189639 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=922743
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-09-22 05:39:32 UTC

# find /usr/lib64/erlang/man/ | wc -l
649

Comment 1 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-04-13 17:11:36 UTC

See bug 189639. Do you disagree with the reasoning there?

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-04-14 12:14:05 UTC

Ah, that's quite unconventional. Would a symlink solution work here? If so, from where to where?

Comment 3 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2016-04-26 18:56:44 UTC

I don't think that will work. Also, if you read the other bug, I think the point is that this is not how the Erlang man pages are intended. They really are supposed to be an entirely different documentation system, only incidentally using the same format (man).

Comment 4 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-07-18 08:12:08 UTC

I will not be maintaining erlang anymore, sorry. If you can contribute, please work with the proxy maintenance team.

Comment 5 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-07-18 10:51:22 UTC

I also see other distributions providing man pages there and not moving to the usual location. This looks to me like an upstream issue