On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:53:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> writes: > > On lun, 2009-08-17 at 13:01 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > >> So surely the best way to tell if a translated page is out of date is > >> to compare these dates in the two documents, no? > > > And I guess it should be easy to make a lintian test for that? > > I suspect that this is going to not be as accurate as we might hope, but > it is at least fairly easy to check and there's a simple fix for false > positives (updating the .TH date), so it seems reasonable to me. > > Note that a lot of man pages don't have a date on the .TH line. It's not > required.
Also note that translated manpages may have a translated date. But I agree that if both the English and a translated manpages have a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD, and the date of the translated manpages has an older date, lintian could warn. Best Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
