Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock
X-Debbugs-Cc: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@debian.org>, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@debian.org>
Please unblock package manpages-l10n
(Please provide enough (but not too much) information to help
the release team to judge the request efficiently. E.g. by
filling in the sections below.)
[ Reason ]
manpages-l10n contains (translated) man pages for > 100 source
packages. Shortly before the hard freeze, upstream synced the version
of the (english) man pages in Debian and prepared a new release. Due
to po4a this either contains the updated translation (if available) or
the current english texts. Therefore, the translated man pages in
4.9.3-1 are now in sync what is shipped with Bullseye.
Furthermore, I finally managed to contact Javier Fernández-Sanguino
Peña, and we agreed that the very outdated spanish man page
translations are taken over by manpages-l10n, manpages-es-extra is
asked for removal.
[ Impact ]
Some translated man pages are out of date (in 4.9.1-7), giving users
reading them outdated (or possibly wrong) information.
Spanish users will miss some translations, since manpages-es-extra is
not available any more and the corresponding translations in
manpages-l10n would not be shipped (they were deliberately not present
in 4.9.1-7, where I had not been able to contact Javier).
[ Tests ]
Upstream (I'm part of upstream) runs nightly builds of all man pages
in all languages, checking for (build) errors. Furthermore upstream
regularly reviews (where possible) incoming translations.
[ Risks ]
This is a leaf and documentation package, servicing our users speaking
languages different from English.
[ Checklist ]
[x] all changes are documented in the d/changelog
[x] I reviewed all changes and I approve them
[ ] attach debdiff against the package in testing
I can prepare the debdiff, but it will contain lots of changes, since
many man pages had updated (even if only due to po4a reformatting
them).
[ Other info ]
If there is any open question regarding this unblock, I'm most happy
to provide it.
In the changelog unfortunately there is a typo, the new upstream
versio is indeed 4.9.3, *not* 4.9.1.
unblock manpages-l10n/4.9.3-1
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