Bug#542010: lintian: detected outdated localized manpage (policy 12.1 / 3.8.3.0)
On Monday 17 August 2009 04:51:29 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
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> Policy 3.8.3.0 recommends to check wether localized manpage are in sync
> with the original version.
>
> A thread on debian-devel
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00610.html) pointed that
> the TH command could help on that.
>
The problem I see with using TH is that many man pages don't conform to
YYYY-MM-DD format. Question now is: should lintian check for man pages not
using that date format in an attempt to standardise?
> It'd be nice if lintian could check that.
>
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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