Re: Manpages translation

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:50:09PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:46:51PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 
> > Consider a French translator who finds an error in sylpheed/fr.po.
> > He runs
> >   $ apt-get source sylpheed
> > but there is no po/ directory.  Too bad, its maintainer is using his own
> > f*cking packaging system so that only geeks can work on it (and of
> > course in this case the fr.po file is patched!).
> 
> Looking at the sources is mostly something a translator would need to do
> when translations are first being added to a package.
[...]

Wrong, l10n and i18n are different issues.

Denis