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.
