Hi,

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:25:53PM +0400, Sergey Slipchenko wrote:
> 2012/5/1 Simon Paillard <spaill...@debian.org>:
> > Package: manpages-ru
> > Version: 0.98-4
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Last manpages-ru upload occurred in 2005 (same version since etch), where
> > the only change was the change of maintainer name..
> > Last manpages-ru with upstream changes occurred in 2001 (11 years ago!!)
> > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/manpages-ru/manpages-ru_0.98-4/changelog
> >
> > It looks to me the debian package is abandoned, and manpages-ru little
> > useful/precise to Russian users.
> >
> > In the mean time, man-pages-ru project provides up to date translations:
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/man-pages-ru/
> > 3.39 translation is provided (released on 23th april in english)
> >
> > Does someone on debian-l10n-russ...@lists.debian.org volunteer to
> > update that package with man-pages-ru ?
> 
> It's distributed under GNU FDL, AFAIK it's not compatible with DFSG.

Then there are 2 possibilities:
- ask man-pages-ru to relicense under a DFSG-compatible license
- create an up to date manpages-ru in non-free
 
> > Dmitri, do you want to orphan the package ?
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#orphaning
 

-- 
Simon Paillard



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