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bug #62553: ship man page symlinks or `so` stubs for g-prefixed commands

Submitter:  G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
Submitted:  Tue 31 May 2022 10:02:35 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  General Severity:  1 - Wish
Item Group:  Documentation Status:  None
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Tue 31 May 2022 10:02:35 PM UTC, original submission:  

Our Texinfo manual always (modulo errors of oversight) refers to groff commands that had Unix counterparts with a "g" prefix.  It also makes several references to those man pages, and this number will increase as I work on bug #60061.

It's going to be frustrating for users on systems without a "traditional" troff installation--which is probably most of them--to type, say, "man gtbl" and get back nothing useful.

Since we already check for such an existing installation at configuration time, we can use its absence to update installation targets to installs symlinks or stub man pages.

G. Branden Robinson <gbranden>
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