Re: Finnish manpages orphaned

[Leena Romppainen <leena.romppainen@saunalahti.fi>]

Tommi Vainikainen wrote:
> On 2006-03-06T19:22:17+0200, kink@squirrelmail.org wrote:
>   
> > I recently did an upload for the manpages-fi package, which has been
> > orphaned. I tidied up the packaging a bit so it's acceptable for our
> > current standards, but since I'm Dutch not Finnish, I did not touch the
> > actual content of the package which has gone unchanged since 5 years
> > now.
> >     
>
> Actually I have had on a long time project trying to revive the
> translations. Actually the Finnish translations in the package are
> very bad quality and also very old. There has been Alioth project
> registered for the man page translations, but I haven't had very much
> time for this project.
>
> http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-manpages-fi/
>
> There is also some of the reported bugs fixed in that repository, but
> much more cleanup is needed....
>
>   
Hmm, I've been trying to pick up courage (not to mention time & energy) 
to get at least slightly involved in some Debian efforts. I must admit 
that this sounds slightly larger than I had thought, but maybe I would 
feel up to challenge if I proceed in the Debian packaging "school" a 
friend of mine does. Consider this a hesitant "perhaps I could do at 
least something if nobody better shows up" from a dark corner... Might 
be better if I got started with doing some translation work and then 
maybe became a package maintainer at a later date, if that would work 
for Tommi? Anyone else interested at all?

--
Leena "Droidy" Romppainen