Bug#542010: lintian: detected outdated localized manpage (policy 12.1 / 3.8.3.0)
Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:
> On Wednesday 16 September 2009 13:27:55 Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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 date from the .TH line to do this out-of-date check.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?.
Maybe, particularly if we apply some sort of a fudge to allow for stuff
committed in odd orders or merged from other branches. Don't warn if the
man pages are dated within a day of each other, for instance.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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