Bug#1100900:

Hello Thomas,
thanks for the reply and the details.

I know and understand the technical details behind that topic. But that 
is not the point.
My apologize but it seems I wasn't clear enough.

The problem is that users (readers of the website) do get the message 
that a page's translation is outdated and they should use another one. 
That website is Debian. Users don't care if it is an official website, a 
wiki, a community project or something else. It is just "Debian". And in 
there perception the website is kind of "broken".

It is a matter of public relations and marketing.

It IMHO harms the project "Debian" having such pages online, no matter 
how tiny the git diff is. The problem is the out of date translation 
message.

One solution could be to just don't show pages out of date. In this case 
you never have to show that out-dated message to users. It is that 
simple.

Again: This ticket is not about technical details or problems. It is 
about how the project is perceived by outsiders, potential new users and 
potential new contributors.

Regards,
Christian

Am 23.03.2025 17:54 schrieb Thomas Lange:
> We track all translations of our web pages on
> https://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats
> 
> For german you see a list of up-to-date and outdated pages
> on https://www.debian.org/devel/website/stats/de
> 
> And you can directly see which git command will show the differences,
> that are not yet applied to the translation.
> The differences vary greatly, sometimes it's only a typo or a link
> update from http to https, but sometimes larger parts of text are
> changed, added or removed. Therefore it's not easy to decide if a
> translation that is a couple of git commits behind the english version
> should be removed or not.
> 
> 
> IMO there's no need that you look for outdated pages manually.
> 
> But it seems there's a minor bug the the script that generates theses
> statistics (stattrans.pl), because the l10n/ddtp page is not listed.