On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> It doesn’t unconditionally prefer Spanish pages over English pages. What
> you’re seeing is that it picks a section first (1 instead of 8, in this
> case) and sticks to it. In section 1, the best match for an English request
> is the Spanish page, because there is no English page.
>
> The rationale behind this logic is that it’s better to serve the manpage of
> the correct section, even if the language doesn’t match. If the user
> requested e.g. crontab(5), they won’t be happy with crontab(1) only because
> there is a crontab(1) version in their preferred language.
In this case the user hasn't selected a section, so it seems like a
bug to choose a section for them.