Re: should manpages-nl get shipped with woody?
Joost van Baal <joostvb-debian-manpages-nl-20020412-51@mdcc.cx> writes:
> Hi,
>
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>
> I maintain the manpages-nl Debian package: Linux manual pages translated
> into Dutch. I doubt wether it should get shipped with the coming stable
> woody release: There is no upstream maintenance, most of the 115
> translations shipped with it are translations of potato manpages, made
> early 2001, so probably obsolete. Therefore, the usefulness of this
> package is questionable. Otoh: shipping it with woody will probably get
> more eyeballs on the package, which might result in a new upstream
> maintainer...
>
> Opinions?
Sure :-)
Depending on which manpages are included, I think that shipping these
manpages and running the risk that they are out-of-date is better than
not shipping them at all. If they are for fairly basic packages then
I believe that most of the info in them is generally correct. The AUI
(application user interface) of basic packages doesn't change an awful
lot over time. I mean, how much has the invokation of for example rm
changed of the last decade or so?
HTH,
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