Package: manpages-nl Version: 20051127-2 Severity: important Hoi Thijs,
Lots of manpages shipped with manpages-nl are very much out of sync with the tools we ship in Debian. - bash(1) documents bash 2.03 (Dec 1999), we ship 3.1 (Dec 2005) - ls(1) documents ls from fileutils 4.01 (2000-05), we ship coreutils 5.97 Jul 2006 - cat(1) documents cat from textutils 2.0 1999-08, we ship coreutils 5.97 Jul 2006 - mount(2) is a translation of mount(2) from manpages 1.29 Nov 1994, we ship 2.39 Aug 2006 manpage from 2004-05 - printf(3) does not state any version (lots of other translated manpages fail to do this) This is not a merely theoretical problem: the original manpages have seen changes which haven't made it in the translations: - chgrp(1) doesn't mention the --preserve-root option - ls(1) and du(1) mention the obsolete --kilobytes option Currently, people might be mislead by the version "20051127" and assume the manpages are well maintained. I suggest adding a warning to the description in the control file, e.g. by changing [...] * 8 Administration and privileged commands (e.g. ping) More translations are welcome. into something like [...] * 8 Administration and privileged commands (e.g. ping) Updates of translations are welcome: most of the translation haven't been updated since 2001-12. (Of course, the translations should get shipped with the upstream tools, but getting that done takes much more effort...) Bedankt voor het onderhouden van manpages-nl! Groeten, Joost
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