Hi,
[Sorry for crosspost, Mail-Followup-To set to
debian-i18n@lists.debian.org]
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Ivo Timmermans wrote on
debian-i18n@lists.debian.org:
> Ideally, the Dutch (and other) manpages should be distributed together
> with the upstream sources. Fileutils for example should install its
> translated manpages itself.
Indeed. I started looking at how to implement such a thing. Currently,
the GNU tools use help2man by Brendan O'Dea to convert the stuff
binaries give when invoked with --help to a manpage. help2man supports
english only; therefore all alternative --help texts, included in .po
files, do _not_ get converted to manpages, and only an english manpage
gets installed. I believe the best thing to do would be to
internationalize help2man. Once that is done, GNU packages could
provide a hook to install manpages in other languages.
Brendan, do you think it would be a good idea to internationalize
help2man?
Bye,
Joost
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