On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:09:08AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 11:24:14AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > There is currently no consensus whether translated man pages should > > be shipped along with original man pages or within manpages-xx packages. > > Unfortunately this leads to conflicts when a translation is first > > shipped by the latter, then incorporated into the former (e.g. when > > it becomes part of upstream tarball). > > > > Some developers are reluctant to include French translated man pages and > > ask me to ship them in manpages-fr. How can I make them change their > > mind? Is there a consensus that translated man pages must go with > > original man pages? Are exceptions needed for some packages? > > I think it is proper to include translated man pages with original man > pages, and to use apt-localepurge (now) or dpkg exclusions (when they're > implemented) if people are worried about space. My gut feeling is that > the manpages-LL packages should cover roughly the same topics as the > English manpages package.
I fully agree. > My experience has been that refusing to include translated man pages > makes it much harder to tell when the man pages have got out of date. > However, I'm not sure how to go about persuading reluctant developers of > this. I know what to do then: flame them here ;) When grabbing old mails, I found an answer from a developer who told me that his package is part of base and thus he wants to keep it small. Is this indeed an important issue? Denis
