Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 apt 0.9.7.8~exp1 Control: retitle -2 apt: Needs to Replace manpages-it due to new Italian man pages Control: severity -2 serious
On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 08:45:27 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 5 April 2013 08:10, Matteo Settenvini <[email protected]> wrote: > > Package: apt > > Version: 0.9.7.8 > > Severity: normal > > I think there is something wrong with the files included in the apt > > package from experimental. Since packages from experimental sooner or > > later land into unstable, it's good to fix this before the next > > release. ^_^ > > > > I gather that localized manpages should not distributed with the apt > > package. > > Actually, they should. Previously some translations were missing from > the apt binaries, but this is fixed in 0.9.7.8~exp1. In that case apt needs to Replace the manpages-it package. > It is manpages-it that should not include those files. Following the > example of other translated man page packages (i.e. manpages-fr, > manpages-de), man pages for applications should not be included and, > where currently provided, should instead be contributed to application > packaging. When those are not shipped anymore in manpages-it then the Replaces can be restricted to an older-than version. > There are many in manpages-it. At least these need to be removed, to > cede the space to apt: > /usr/share/man/it/man5/sources.list.5.gz > /usr/share/man/it/man8/apt-cdrom.8.gz > > Also I see dpkg, gnumeric, dselect, bash, and many more which should > be dropped or moved to their respective application packaging. That would be ideal, yes. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

