[postgis-devel] Plan release PostGIS 3.4.0 this weekend

[Greg Troxel]

Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl> writes:

> On 8/12/23 12:40, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I'm boggled as to how this works for anyone else.  Or maybe the Debian
>> package worked around this bug long ago by calling man-install in doc
>> during the install phase?
>
> Yes, the Debian package executes:
>
>  #       Compile and install docs
>          $(MAKE) -C doc docs-install man-install \
>                  DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp \
>                  PGSQL_DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc \
>                  PGSQL_MANDIR=/usr/share/man
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/postgis/-/blob/debian/3.4.0_rc2+dfsg-1_exp1/debian/rules#L206-L210

Thanks -- that explains it, but I'd call that a workaround that is
contrary to README.postgis, and thus would say that "man page
installation is also broken on GNU/Linux systems".

(There is also docs-install that my build is missing.)