Bug#542010: lintian: detected outdated localized manpage (policy 12.1 / 3.8.3.0)
Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:
> 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?
As mentioned in the debian-devel thread, it really seems like pointless
makework for Debian maintainers to me.
Also, I think that thread identified some other problems with using a date
from the .TH line to do this out-of-date check. I'm not sure that the
check is going to be viable, unfortunately, although I suppose we could
try it as an experimental check and see how bad the false positive
situation is. But for me personally it dropped in priority due to the
difficulties it looks like we'll have with doing it properly.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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