It’s definitely not a bug to choose a section for the user, since we can’t serve pages without choosing :).
What you’re trying to say is that section choice should happen after language matching. This might work. I’ve filed https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/63 for it. On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > > It doesn’t unconditionally prefer Spanish pages over English pages. What > > you’re seeing is that it picks a section first (1 instead of 8, in this > > case) and sticks to it. In section 1, the best match for an English > request > > is the Spanish page, because there is no English page. > > > > The rationale behind this logic is that it’s better to serve the manpage > of > > the correct section, even if the language doesn’t match. If the user > > requested e.g. crontab(5), they won’t be happy with crontab(1) only > because > > there is a crontab(1) version in their preferred language. > > In this case the user hasn't selected a section, so it seems like a > bug to choose a section for them. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > -- Best regards, Michael
