Bug#594495: apt: obsolete references to non-us still present in documentation
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Hi, thanks for your reply.
On 26/08/10 18:30, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> 2010/8/26 J. M. Escartin <ripero84@gmail.com>:
>> It makes no sense to keep non-us stuff four years after security updates for woody were discontinued. Please, remove all of them (including doc translations).
>
> It makes no sense, but it at least doesn't have "a major effect on the
> usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to everyone",
> which is the definition for important.
>
Sorry for the wrong tag, I was not sure of the consideration of the usability
consequences for somebody non-technical using the option (concerning the first
appearance in the man page). Not an expert bug reporter here...
> It appears two times in the manpage btw, second time with the note that non-us
> doesn't work this way any longer but that it serves as an example - and
> that is what all these paragraphs are: an example.
I agree. However, maybe giving a realistic example (or a more abstract one, but
not a deprecated one) would prove more logical / useful.
> The manpage also mentions m68k architecture in this paragraph…
> its not an official architecture since etch…
>
> Fixing it now properly means to update the example resulting in fuzzying it.
> I don't think it is worthed the hassle on its own as it doesn't hurt anyone…
>
>
> Noted on the lists:
> - someone should have found that earlier if more people would look
> - if we break the translations anyway (unlikely)
> - fix after squeeze release
>
Ok.
Regards,
E.
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