Re: More man page improvements

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2020-05-12 at 19:42:02 +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> after your recent push the man pages no longer build, i.e. 
> git clean -d -X -f
> autoreconf -f -i
> ./configure
> make -C man update-po
> 
> fails with:
> Fehler: »msginit -i po/dpkg-man.pot --locale add_de -o ?po/de.add --no-translator« endete mit dem Wert 1.
> 
> If I remove the "?", this line suceedes:
> 
> helge@samd:/tmp/dpkg/man$ msginit -i po/dpkg-man.pot --locale add_de -o po/de.add --no-translator
> po/de.add wurde erstellt.
> 
> I'm workin on stable, if this matters.

Hmm, right that would not work entirely. :/ The latest po4a release
changed the default for the --porefs option, and removed the old way
to change that default, so code that changed the default cannot
specify it in a way that is backwards compatible. This should mostly
affect wrapping, so I guess I could also relax the Build-Depends, but
I assume we'll get flip-flops in the .po depending on where it got
updated.

I'm also wondering about the addenda, which I refactored to specify
them only once in the config, but that only works in testing/sid. We
removed references to man page authors some time ago, so was
considering whether to do the same for the addenda and remove them to
match the upstream part, which would also remove that problem entirely.
Not sure how that would fly with translators though?

Thanks,
Guillem