Christian Perrier <bubu...@debian.org> writes: > Before people "blindly" update their Standards-Version, I deeply > suggest looking at this item:
>> * Localized man pages should either be kept up-to-date with the >> original version or warn that they're not up-to-date, either with >> warning text or by showing missing or changed portions in the >> original language. [12.1] > *many* packages do provide localized manpages where l10n is handled > "manually" (the translated manpages are just a copy of the original > ones....where English is manually replaced by the said language). With > such setup, it is nearly impossible to guarantee that the localized > manpage is in sync with the original one. The intention in those cases is for the maintainer to add a warning to the page saying that it may not be up-to-date (preferrably after doing some analysis based on when they know the English manpage last changed). > (thankfully for our release date, this "should" is not a "must"...:-)) Yes, very intentional. :) The rationale in the Policy discussion about this is that out-of-date man page translations without any warning is *already* a bug, so putting it in Policy saying that it's a bug doesn't make any packages more buggy than they already are. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
