Re: Shadow's manpages translation

Jens Seidel wrote:
> http://www.infodrom.org/projects/manpages-de/
>
> contains
> $ wc ./man1/passwd.1 ./man1/chsh.1
> 205 1358 9654 ./man1/passwd.1
> 36 218 1491 ./man1/chsh.1
> 241 1576 11145 insgesamt
>
> and the passwd package contains these too (other versions!)
> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/de/man1/passwd.1.gz
> passwd: /usr/share/man/de/man1/passwd.1.gz
> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/man/de/man1/chsh.1.gz
> passwd: /usr/share/man/de/man1/chsh.1.gz
>
> OK. Joey's files are not in the manpages-de package, but why?

There would be a clash between passwd and manpages-de if they would.

> > There is an opportunity to include this update in Sarge.
>
> OK. How about removing the mapages from passwd package and distribution
> with manpages-de?

As long as upstream maintains and updates them on demand, both are
fine, I guess.

Regards,

        Joey

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