#2102: Audit translated manual pages --------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected] Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.2 Component: BOOK | Version: SVN Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | --------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
With all due respect to Alexander's efforts on this bug, wouldn't it be easier to put a caution note on the locale related issues page saying to simply delete an affected man page (providing elementary instructions to look in the /usr/share/man/xx tree)? I mean what Alex is asking would actually require this check each and every time each and every package is added/updated. This seems excessive. If a user is using a locale that has issues, she's bound to visit the locale related issues page at least once and see the caution note about incorrectly formatted man pages. So, if she pulls up a man page that doesn't format correctly in the native encoding, she'll know immediately that an English page probably exists and to delete the man page and/or country directory. Another thought that doesn't require BLFS editors to be involved with every single package update is to provide instructions, *at the beginning of the book* to create unsupported country directory entries in the /usr/share/man tree which are actually symlinks to /dev/null. This would be a one-time fix, not requiring editor checking if /usr/share/man/xx -> /dev/null. Any package that would install a page as /usr/share/man/xx/manx/manpage would continue with the installation process, even though the unsupported man pages are not really being installed. Just a couple of thoughts to consider (but I do like the /dev/null idea). -- Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2102> BLFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs> Beyond Linux From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
