Bug#246164: [INTL:es] new manpage dpkg-scansources(8)

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:48:00PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 22:03 +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 07:01:03PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 18:08 +0200, Ruben Porras wrote:
> > > 
> > > > There is a new translation available for the dpkg package.
> > >
> > > Please supply this as a manpage, not in Perl documentation format.
> > 
> > Original document is in POD format, why should translated documentation
> > use a different format?  Having the same format is very convenient for
> > translators.
>
> Given it's the only one for which that is true, it's probably incorrect
> -- and the English documentation needs to be converted into man format.
> I'd rather not rely on the behaviour of pod2man (personally).
> 
> Both the French and Japanese translations are in man format.

Oh no, I am now forced to tell that they were converted from another
format, and this thread will automatically degenerate ;)

Pod2man works well on translated documents.

Denis