Bug#542010: lintian: detected outdated localized manpage (policy 12.1 / 3.8.3.0)
Raphael Geissert a écrit :
> On Monday 17 August 2009 04:51:29 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> [...]
>> 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?
To be honest, I'm not really sure. I opened the bug following the
discussion on d-d@ but I don't really know manpages handling, and it
seems it might be really trickier than it appeared.
Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis
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