Bug#542010: lintian: detected outdated localized manpage (policy 12.1 / 3.8.3.0)
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 13:27:55 Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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 from the .TH line to do this out-of-date check.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.
I think it might also be implemented by comparing the mtime of the man pages;
still as an experimental test, but it might lead to better results, don't you
think?.
Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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