[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#378899: passwd: [Intl:de] German man page out of sync

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Package: passwd
Version: 1:4.0.16-2
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

The german man page for passwd is out of sync, most notably regarding
the options (but I like the german layout much more in the synopsis),
e.g. -f, -g, -s are mentioned in the german version, but not in the
english original (and looking at passwd --help, they are not supported
either[1]).

The german man page states:
.\" Translation based on http://cvs.pld.org.pl/shadow/man/passwd.1
.\" (Version 1.25)
but this URL is 404 now, so I could not get a diff. Also it is
unclear, how this releates to the english version which seems to come
from a docbook source (without author or URL):
.\"     Title: passwd
.\"    Author:
.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.70.1
<http://docbook.sf.net/>
.\"      Date: 06/06/2006

It would be great if this important man page could be updated for
Etch. Please do *not* simply drop the german man page, it is a quite
valuable and extensive source already. If the original translator is
unable to work on this man page and a diff between the version the
translation is based on and the current can be provided, I can try to
update the translation myself (no promises at this time, though).

Greetings

          Helge

[1] The reason I looked at this was because I tried to find out if
Debian is vulnerable to USN-308-1 (http://lwn.net/Alerts/190323/),
hence it would be great if you could confirm also that the options
mentioned above are not supported (anymore?) in Debian.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.6-grsec-cz03
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages passwd depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.16.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam-modules                0.79-3.1   Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam0g                      0.79-3.1   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   1.30-1     SELinux shared libraries
ii  login                         1:4.0.16-2 system login tools

passwd recommends no packages.

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