Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:53:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> writes:
> > On lun, 2009-08-17 at 13:01 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> >> So surely the best way to tell if a translated page is out of date is
> >> to compare these dates in the two documents, no?
>
> > And I guess it should be easy to make a lintian test for that?
>
> I suspect that this is going to not be as accurate as we might hope, but
> it is at least fairly easy to check and there's a simple fix for false
> positives (updating the .TH date), so it seems reasonable to me.
>
> Note that a lot of man pages don't have a date on the .TH line. It's not
> required.
Also note that translated manpages may have a translated date.
But I agree that if both the English and a translated manpages have a date
in the format YYYY-MM-DD, and the date of the translated manpages has an
older date, lintian could warn.
Best Regards,
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Nekral
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