On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 07:05:10PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Denis Barbier wrote: > > Hi, > > > > There is currently no consensus whether translated man pages should > > be shipped along with original man pages or within manpages-xx packages. > > The general rule is that manpages-$lang contains translated manual > pages from the manpages (upstream name: man-pages) package, i.e. libc, > general and kernel manpages. However, translation upstream make > exceptions so section 1 pages are included as well. > > Hence, translations of manual pages from non-manpages packages should > go into the package in question in general and not into the > manpages-foo package.
There seems to be a consensus for this solution. > > Unfortunately this leads to conflicts when a translation is first > > shipped by the latter, then incorporated into the former (e.g. when > > it becomes part of upstream tarball). > > "Simply" disable it from the manpages-foo package. That's already > done with the manpages package (read: check how it's done) in Debian > as well, since it ships some manual pages that are also present in > other packages and Debian considered the other ones more appropriate. I have something similar for manpages-fr, but it is done automatically since I am lazy ;) No offense in mind, but could you please update the manpages package? Even if many translations in manpages-fr are outdated, few are newer than their original; when man pages have been renamed (e.g. ttys->ttyS, I do not remember if there are others) this is very confusing. Denis