Re: Shadow's manpages translation

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Jens Seidel wrote:
> http://www.infodrom.org/projects/manpages-de/
> 
> contains
> $ wc ./man1/passwd.1 ./man1/chsh.1 
>   205  1358  9654 ./man1/passwd.1
>    36   218  1491 ./man1/chsh.1
>   241  1576 11145 insgesamt
> 
> and the passwd package contains these too (other versions!)
> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/de/man1/passwd.1.gz
> passwd: /usr/share/man/de/man1/passwd.1.gz
> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/de/man1/chsh.1.gz
> passwd: /usr/share/man/de/man1/chsh.1.gz
> 
> OK. Joey's files are not in the manpages-de package, but why?

There would be a clash between passwd and manpages-de if they would.

> > There is an opportunity to include this update in Sarge.
> 
> OK. How about removing the mapages from passwd package and distribution
> with manpages-de?

As long as upstream maintains and updates them on demand, both are
fine, I guess.

Regards,

	Joey

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