Bug 550854 – games-engines/renpy: please add a renpy manual page

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Andrew Savchenko 2015-05-31 04:34:59 UTC]

Created attachment 404348 [details]
renpy.1

Hello,

right now renpy has no manual page which leads to misunderstanding (see bug 515608). I prepared a small man page which describes basic usage and some tips.
Please add it to the tree.

Manual page is installed as ${P}.1 because of slotting, though it is identical for all versions right now.

[Comment 1 Andrew Savchenko 2015-05-31 04:35:42 UTC]

Created attachment 404350 [details, diff]
renpy-6.18.3.ebuild.patch

patch to install man page

[Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2015-05-31 11:32:03 UTC]

I guess we could also modify eselect renpy to set the manpage symlink

[Comment 3 Andrew Savchenko 2015-05-31 17:27:04 UTC]

(In reply to Julian Ospald (hasufell) from comment #2)
> I guess we could also modify eselect renpy to set the manpage symlink

I see little point doing this as man pages will be identical.

BTW there is no standard way to manage man pages symlinks (e.g. no related eselect lib), so it needs a lot of coding and half of current implementations are broken (they assume only selected set of possible compression extensions).

[Comment 4 Andrew Savchenko 2015-07-15 10:21:04 UTC]

Upstream still hasn't replied to this issue after considerable time. Should we apply man-page as-is to the tree?

[Comment 5 Julian Ospald 2015-07-15 11:50:19 UTC]

(In reply to Andrew Savchenko from comment #4)
> Upstream still hasn't replied to this issue after considerable time.

Probably because there is no
* proper pull request
* the manpage as it is contains gentoo-specific information

Can you fix those things and send a pull request?