Re: https://manpages.debian.org/ - PARTIAL breakage

Paul Wise <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.documentation,gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <CAKTje6EUbxduYoTW4kHVVTGrkLqTCmQvSnc7Gyqwj8y3_Ocr5g@mail.gmail.com>
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

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