[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 481750] description of "source" in bash in posix mode wrong

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--- Comment #7 from Akira TAGOH <tagoh at redhat.com>  2009-02-01 22:23:44 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> In my understanding the severity is not in discrepancies of assorted variants
> of manpages but it lies in a potential breakage of various scripts which were
> written and deployed "locally".  Changes in API, and this is one, should not be
> taken lightly.
> 
> It is true that it not hard to fix those, if you realize what happened, but so
> far at least scripts used by /etc/init.d/network broke and, AFAIK, they are
> still broken.

I'm not sure how that breakage is related to the mistranslation in Japanese
manpages since they could see difference between the description in manpages
and the actual behavior before pushing something to public though, translations
is always likely to be mistranslated or be inconsistent translations comparing
to the original one by changing APIs etc, because upstream doesn't maintain it.
particularly in the case of documentations and manpages not using something
like gettext to detect changes in the original one.

I don't think a kind of this issue is a higher-serverity so that there are a
workaround to see a behavior i.e. looking at the English manpages.

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