Your message dated Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:16:31 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#1148109: Update the German manpage of zgrep with
repect to the switch "-r"
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Package: zutils
Version: 1.17~pre1-2
$ zgrep --version
zgrep (zutils) 1.17-pre1
Copyright (C) 2026 Antonio Diaz Diaz.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
$ zgrep -ri "accessable" /usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/generic/around-the-bend/AroundTheBend.tex.gz:% Use the
inaccessable "letter" @ to separate parameters. The two cases are:
^C
$ LANG=de_DE.utf8 man zgrep | grep -- '-r'
Die folgenden Optionen von grep(1) werden nicht unterstützt:
--dereference-recursive (-R), --directories (-d), --exclude, --exclude-from,
--exclude-dir, --include, --null (-Z), --null-data (-z) und --recursive (-r).
Translation: “The following grep(1) options are not supported:
--dereference-recursive (-R), --directories (-d), --exclude, --exclude-from,
--exclude-dir, --include, --null (-Z), --null-data (-z), and --recursive (-r).”
However, as demonstrated above, '-r' is supported. Please update the manpage.
Gratefully!
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Hello Daniel
thanks for the explanation.
Am Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 05:52:56PM +0200 schrieb Daniel Baumann:
> On 9/17/26 16:56, Alma Madeleine wrote:
> > The mechanism via diversions is the implementation level.
>
> I didn't argue against the merit of the bug, I just tried to explain that
> the fix isn't going to be happening because of the underlaying
> implementation details (which are out of the hand of the involved packages).
I agree, there is nothing any of the involved packages can do here[1].
Alma, the only possible way to resolve this is to convince both gzip
and zutils to start maintaining translations themselves. If both
agree, then the current translations from manpages-.. (de, fr, ...)
could be move there and this situation is resolved.
Until then I close this bug, because technically speaking the man page
translation for zgrep is fine, it maches the version from gzip in
unstable, so updating the translation would not be suitable, as gzips
zgrep does not support "-r" (at least the man page and --help do not
claim so).
Translating the man page of zutils zgrep would be another bug and
having this man pages shipped instead of the gzip version yet another,
and both would be "wontfix", i.e. impossible due to technical
limitations.
We can discuss this here, even though the bug is closed, if you need
further information.
And nevertheless thanks anyway for reporting this issue, even though
in this case we cannot resolve it.
Greetings
Helge
[1] Well, one could be called zgrep.zutlis or zgrep.gzip, but I assume
this is not wanted.
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