[tldoc] What is supposed to do "Restore all packages to latest version"

Denis Bitouzé dbitouze at wanadoo.fr
Sat May 16 10:48:53 CEST 2015


Le 16/05/15 à 01h06, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> a écrit :

>     I'm in the process of translating the tlpkg and the action "Restore
>     all packages to latest version" is not that clear for me: does it
>     mean that after some update, running it will restore all the package
>     to their latest version before this update?
>
> As far as I can see from a quick look at the source, it restores the
> backup from *every* package which has a backup -- i.e., it looks at
> every backup ever made.  Not just those packages that were in the
> latest update.  I can't quite envision when this would be useful, but
> nevertheless, that's what the code looks like to me.
>
> If that's right, I think (for your translation info) "from their latest
> backup" would be clearer wording than "to latest version" (but I don't
> want to actually change the English right now).

OK, thanks for this clarification.

I'll take the liberty to change in this sense in the French translation.
-- 
Denis



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