systemd-sysv / man pages and their translations

[Michael Biebl]

systemd-sysv ships a couple of man pages for the SysV compat tools:

/usr/share/man/man1/init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/runlevel.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/telinit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/poweroff.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/reboot.8.gz


Those man pages have translations which are based on the original
sysvinit man page. E.g. the German shutdown man page talks about
/etc/inittab and options which the systemd-sysv shutdown does not provide.
I think this is confusing.

Should we ask the maintainers of the manpages-* packages to remove the
translations for above man pages?

Attached is a complete list.
Looks like manpages-de, manpages-es-extra, manpages-fr-extra,
manpages-hu, manpages-ja, manpages-pl, manpages-tr, manpages-zh are
affected.


init.1.gz
=====================
systemd-sysv: /usr/share/man/man1/init.1.gz

runlevel.8.gz
=====================
manpages-de: /usr/share/man/de/man8/runlevel.8.gz
manpages-es-extra: /usr/share/man/es/man8/runlevel.8.gz
manpages-fr-extra: /usr/share/man/fr/man8/runlevel.8.gz
manpages-ja: /usr/share/man/ja/man8/runlevel.8.gz
manpages-pl: /usr/share/man/pl/man8/runlevel.8.gz
manpages-tr: /usr/share/man/tr/man8/runlevel.8.gz
systemd-sysv: /usr/share/man/man8/runlevel.8.gz
sysvinit-core: /usr/share/man/man8/runlevel.8.gz
upstart: /usr/share/man/man8/runlevel.8.gz

shutdown.8.gz
=====================
manpages-de: /usr/share/man/de/man8/shutdown.8.gz
manpages-es-extra: /usr/share/man/es/man8/shutdown.8.gz
manpages-fr-extra: /usr/share/man/fr/man8/shutdown.8.gz
manpages-hu: /usr/share/man/hu/man8/shutdown.8.gz
manpages-ja: /usr/share/man/ja/man8/shutdown.8.gz
manpages-pl: /usr/share/man/pl/man8/shutdown.8.gz
manpages-tr: /usr/share/man/tr/man8/shutdown.8.gz
manpages-zh: /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/shutdown.8.gz
manpages-zh: /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man8/shutdown.8.gz
systemd-sysv: /usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.gz
sysvinit-core: /usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.gz
upstart: /usr/share/man/man8/shutdown.8.gz

halt.8.gz
=====================
manpages-de: /usr/share/man/de/man8/halt.8.gz
manpages-es-extra: /usr/share/man/es/man8/halt.8.gz
manpages-fr-extra: /usr/share/man/fr/man8/halt.8.gz
manpages-ja: /usr/share/man/ja/man8/halt.8.gz
manpages-pl: /usr/share/man/pl/man8/halt.8.gz
manpages-tr: /usr/share/man/tr/man8/halt.8.gz
manpages-zh: /usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/halt.8.gz
manpages-zh: /usr/share/man/zh_TW/man8/halt.8.gz
systemd-sysv: /usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.gz
sysvinit-core: /usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.gz
upstart: /usr/share/man/man8/halt.8.gz

telinit.8.gz
=====================
manpages-de: /usr/share/man/de/man8/telinit.8.gz
manpages-es-extra: /usr/share/man/es/man8/telinit.8.gz
manpages-fr-extra: /usr/share/man/fr/man8/telinit.8.gz
manpages-ja: /usr/share/man/ja/man8/telinit.8.gz
manpages-pl: /usr/share/man/pl/man8/telinit.8.gz
manpages-tr: /usr/share/man/tr/man8/telinit.8.gz
systemd-sysv: /usr/share/man/man8/telinit.8.gz
sysvinit-core: /usr/share/man/man8/telinit.8.gz
upstart: /usr/share/man/man8/telinit.8.gz

poweroff.8.gz
=====================
manpages-de: /usr/share/man/de/man8/poweroff.8.gz
manpages-es-extra: /usr/share/man/es/man8/poweroff.8.gz
manpages-fr-extra: /usr/share/man/fr/man8/poweroff.8.gz
manpages-ja: /usr/share/man/ja/man8/poweroff.8.gz
manpages-pl: /usr/share/man/pl/man8/poweroff.8.gz
manpages-tr: /usr/share/man/tr/man8/poweroff.8.gz
systemd-sysv: /usr/share/man/man8/poweroff.8.gz
sysvinit-core: /usr/share/man/man8/poweroff.8.gz
upstart: /usr/share/man/man8/poweroff.8.gz

reboot.8.gz
=====================
manpages-de: /usr/share/man/de/man8/reboot.8.gz
manpages-es-extra: /usr/share/man/es/man8/reboot.8.gz
manpages-fr-extra: /usr/share/man/fr/man8/reboot.8.gz
manpages-ja: /usr/share/man/ja/man8/reboot.8.gz
manpages-pl: /usr/share/man/pl/man8/reboot.8.gz
manpages-tr: /usr/share/man/tr/man8/reboot.8.gz
systemd-sysv: /usr/share/man/man8/reboot.8.gz
sysvinit-core: /usr/share/man/man8/reboot.8.gz
upstart: /usr/share/man/man8/reboot.8.gz


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