Bug#4193: German Manpages

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

> Package: manpages-de
> Version: 0.1-1
> 
> I installed the German manpages.

Yes, but 0.1-1 installs the manpages in a wrong directory.

> But what do I do to use them?

Install the newest version (0.1-5; available from 
ftp.infodrom.north.de:/pub/people/joey/debian).

> I tried export LANG=de but that did not change anything.

set LC_MESSAGES to de_DE

> Please provide documentation somewhere about how to use the manpages.
This is provided in the latest version, I believe.

Here's the message I sent to Joey and Alvar about this (before the fixed
manpages-de came along):

	I've found out how to do NLS manpages correctly! 

        Here's the story (demonstrated using german manpages):
        man-2.3.10's configure correctly defines HAVE_SETLOCALE;
        src/man.c does internal_locale = NLSINIT [defined (nls/nls.h)
        to setlocale(LC_MESSAGES,"")] and later calls src/manp.c's
        add_nls_manpath with internal_locale as one of its parameters.
        Now internal_locale must be non-NULL and non-empty for man to
        attempt to access an NLS manpage. Some experimentation showed
        that this means the environment variable LC_MESSAGES must be
        set to 'de_DE' (not 'de' or 'de_DE.88591' [1], despite what
        manpath(5) suggests! [2]). man will then search for german
        manpages under /usr/man/de_DE (this directory should be added to
        the MANDB_MAPs in etc/manpath.conf for catmans to be stored).

	What this means:
	- manpages-{de,es} should be modified to install under 
	  /usr/man/{de_DE,es_ES} instead of /usr/man{de,es}.
This is fixed in the current release of those packages.
	- man: MANDB_MAPs for both should be added to /etc/manpath.conf

Ray
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