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Re: stale manpage rename.ul in manpages-{de,fr}?



Hallo Mario,

PLEASE NOT!

Everything is alright in unstable/testing!

On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 06:47:43PM +0100, Mario Blättermann wrote:
> 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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