Re: stale manpage rename.ul in manpages-{de,fr}?
Hello,
Am Do., 9. März 2023 um 18:13 Uhr schrieb Helge Kreutzmann
<debian@helgefjell.de>:
>
> Hello Martin,
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 05:33:02PM +0100, Martin Schulte wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 11:38:00AM +0100, Martin Schulte wrote:
> > > > Hello French and German l10n-maintainers,
> > > >
> > > > there's no rename installed with util-linux in Debian 11, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926637 explains why.
> > > >
> > > > But still there are French and German manpages in the according packages, I consider this an error – at least it is confusing.
> > >
> > > Could you kindly be more precise? Which version of manpages-de do you
> > > have installed?
> >
> > I'm using "Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" on a x86_64 system.
>
> Ok, stable.
>
> > > I just checked our sources and $ dpkg -L manpages-de|grep rename
> > > /usr/share/man/de/man1/rename.ul.1.gz
> >
> > Yes, the manpage is there, but the program isn't. There is also no manpage in /usr/share/man/man1 - it just exists in the French and German translations (as far as I've checked).
>
> This happend when we had a transition of maintainers upstream. So
> I think we carried the rename.ul man page back then a little too
> long and so it went into Bullseye when it should't have.
>
We weren't aware of this change. I will archive the appropriate .po
files and remove the template prior to the next release of
manpages-l10n (btw, which happens today :)) Then I could add the
»rename« package (see below) to our package lists, if desired, so we
can translate it and ship the German and French man pages with the
next version.
> I apologize for the inconvenience.
>
> You have the following options:
> 1. Ignore the translated man page
>
> 2. Install the backport for manpages-de / manpages-fr
> This also contains more and improved man page translations
>
> 3. Upgrade to testing/bookworm
>
> In Testing/Bookworm, rename.ul is both present in english, as well as
> in German, French and Ukrainian. So everything is fine there.
>
As you can see at [1], the English version of rename.ul isn't
available anymore from Debian, only our translated versions. The
rename.1 man page [2] comes from a separate package [3]. What happens
when you call »rename« in a terminal. Does *anything* happen, or maybe
the rename command isn't part of a typical Debian installation
anymore?
[1] https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/manpages-de/rename.ul.1.de.html
[2] https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/rename/rename.1.en.html
[3] https://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/rename
Best Regards,
Mario
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