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+# Copyright (C) 1998 Christian Schwarz
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, you can find it on the World Wide
+# Web at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html, or write to the Free
+# Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+# MA 02110-1301, USA.
+
+use strict;
+
+# define hash for manuals
+my %manual =
+(
+ 'policy' => 'Policy Manual',
+ 'devref' => 'Developers Reference',
+ 'fhs' => 'FHS',
+);
+
+my %url;
+
+my $lib = defined $ENV{LINTIAN_ROOT} ? "$ENV{LINTIAN_ROOT}/" : "";
+
+open (REFS, '<', "${lib}lib/manual_refs")
+ or die "Could not open manual_refs: $!";
+
+while(<REFS>) {
+ chomp;
+ next if m/^\s*\#/;
+
+ my ($key, $data) = split;
+ $url{$key} = $data;
+}
+
+close REFS;
+
+1;