Philipp Kern <[email protected]> writes: > On 2009-08-18, Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This also means localized manpages will always fail the simple date >> check, unless you use the same .TH line in every localized >> manpage. Doing so, however, would make it as impossible to know which >> manpages are outdated based on the .TH line. > And what should we do if a localized manpage is in fact the authoriative > one? Yes. That makes the Lintian check a lot trickier. Policy is worded assuming that there is an authoritative man page and one or more translated man pages, and requires that the translated man pages be kept up-to-date with the authoritative one or contain a warning. There is no assumption (intentionally) that the authoritative man page is written in English. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
