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Bug#856047: locale-gen manpage is not up-to-date

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On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 01:43:11 +0800 Anthony Wong 
<anthony.wong@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.24.9
> 
> Manpage of locale-gen does not mention the --keep-existing option. In
> the source I see there is locale-gen.8.sgml, which has this option,
> but apparently it is not used for generating locale-gen.8, and these
> two files are now out-of-sync. If you prefer to keep using
> locale-gen.8, I suggest to remove the sgml file from git to avoid
> confusion, otherwise we should keep the sgml file up-to-date. I can
> send a patch to fix this if you let me know which way is preferred.

This has been fixed in this commit:

commit 87c1627beeb75c18e85ba40c927a46c2ee1fa749
Author: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Date:   Thu May 5 16:35:03 2022 +0200

     Rewrite locale-gen.8

     It has an SGML source that no-one has regenerated, ever(?) ‒
     --keep-existing was missing entirely since its inclusion in /2005/ ‒
     and rambles

     Re-write it in mdoc(7), instead, which means it doesn't have to be
     compiled, and passes mandoc -Tlint

     locale.alias(5) was removed from the distribution in 2.3.5-2 (2005)


-- 
Cheers,
   Andrej

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