On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:44:18 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > * 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] > Maybe on debian-i18n we could issue a call for translation of this > text (once we agreed on a phrase) such that maintainers using a patch > system could add it already until a solution with upstream is found. That might indeed be helpful. > > As such, this "should" prevents *many* packages to meet 3.8.3 for > > Standards-Version. You may thus want to check things carefully..:) An interesting question is how to detect outdated translated manpages; if they are only half the size or miss some options in an item list it's simple but if the text is just outdated and/or wrong I fear I'll have some problems in several languages ... Cheers, gregor (not subscribed to debian-i18n) -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Supertramp: It's Raining Again
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