Bug#328113: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#328113: man page improvements for passwd.5

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Wed Sep 14 05:18:13 UTC 2005


Quoting Greg Wooledge (greg at wooledge.org):
> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.0.3-30
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> This probably needs to go upstream, but I'm not even sure who's in charge
> of this documentation, if *anyone* at all is....  Nor am I sure who's in
> charge of arranging the translations, etc.

upstream is...

We are currently in the process of resyncing with upstream
versions. In current upstream versions, all documentation is using
DocBook XML and man pages are generated from these XML files.

This means that the patch, as is, is not likely to be applied.

On the other hand, I'm pretty convinced that upstream documentation
needs a big general overview. Neither the upstream author (Tomasz
K~oczko), nor the Debian maintainers (with only one exception) are
native English speakers and there are probably a lot of mistakes lying
in the documentation.

So, help would be greatly welcomed here, actually.

I don't really know what to do with your bug report. We ca n't apply
it and I don't want to reject help. Would you be OK if I sent you the
passwd.5.xml file so that you can make the suggested changes there
(and review it while you're at it)�?








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