On Wednesday 16 September 2009 13:27:55 Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Geissert <[email protected]> writes: > > The problem I see with using TH is that many man pages don't conform to > > YYYY-MM-DD format. Question now is: should lintian check for man pages > > not using that date format in an attempt to standardise? > > As mentioned in the debian-devel thread, it really seems like pointless > makework for Debian maintainers to me. > > Also, I think that thread identified some other problems with using a date > from the .TH line to do this out-of-date check. I'm not sure that the > check is going to be viable, unfortunately, although I suppose we could > try it as an experimental check and see how bad the false positive > situation is. But for me personally it dropped in priority due to the > difficulties it looks like we'll have with doing it properly.
I think it might also be implemented by comparing the mtime of the man pages; still as an experimental test, but it might lead to better results, don't you think?. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
