Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch l10n
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-i18n@lists.debian.org
Currently it is not possible to (reliably) decide, whether an
translated man page is up to date or not. In fact quite a few
translations are outdated (missing newer parameters and other
information) or not a translation at all but a rewrite for a previous
version. While this is an upstream issue, debian maintainers should be
aware of this problem and activly talk to their upstream to resolve
this problem. Thus I suggest the following patch for debian policy:
countries.[4]
+ If a loclized man page for a certain command is provided, it should
+ either be up to date or it should be clearly visible that this version
+ is outdated (either by a note in the beginning or by showing the
+ missing/changed parts in English instead of the target language).
+ Where the build system of the localized man page does not provide the
+ option to enable this Debian developers and maintainers are asked to
+ take this issue to their upstream to resolve.
+
+ If Debian developers themselves provide a framework to support
+ localized man pages this framework must fulfill the requirements of
+ the previous paragraphs. In this case it is recommended to use po4a
+ for localization.
+
Due to limitations in current implementations, all characters in the
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
debian-policy depends on no packages.
debian-policy recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii doc-base 0.8.16 utilities to manage online documen
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