On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Colin Watson wrote: > > Yes. But we can put an intelligent limit to this logic however (although > > I'm not sure it's needed as it goes counter to the usual expected > > behaviour of man). > > Well, TBH I don't think there's a clear answer to whether man should > give you a page in your preferred language or a page from the best > possible section. I suspect the answer you get from users as to which > they'll prefer will vary depending on how well they can read English.
Sure but usually the users that don't grok english are not the one who are interested by API manual page or other non-executables/non-conffile manual pages. > > If the english manual page is in section 1 or 8 (or any other section > > documenting executables), then it should get priority over a localized > > page documenting something else than an executable (whose section has a > > lower priority). > > Hmm. I wonder if this would most easily be fixed along with > http://bugs.debian.org/505465; while implementing that I'd need to add > intelligence related to whether the page being asked for is an > executable and which sections relate to executables anyway, and looking > it up on $PATH doesn't add much complexity there. That's up to you or anyone doing the patch. I'm not familiar with man-db codebase. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
