Re: debconf template translation
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:18:52PM +0100, Michael Piefel wrote:
> Am 3.03.03 um 11:48:18 schrieb Mark Brown:
> > Looking at the list you've posted I'm surprised that the maintainers
> > have actually refused to take the translated manual pages - many of the
> > programs come from util-linux and coreutils both of which already ship
> > at least message files. It seems surprising that maintainers who
> > already include l10n things in their packages would refuse to improve
> > this functionality further. What were the reasons?
>
> That's probably a misconception.
>
> In the case of coreutils, the manpages are generated (from the help and
> version output, mainly). Translating these is silly, they will _quickly_
> get out of sync.
Why?
> The translator would have to look into the build process, create the
> *.x files and so on. I doubt that anyone has ever done this and
> approached the Debian maintainer or upstream with that.
*This* is silly, translators only have to look at English man pages and
see if they are differences, as with any other man page.
Denis
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