Next release of manpages-l10n
Dear translators,
as you might know, the manpages-l10n project releases a new tarball
approximately every three months. The next release will happen around
February 6, 2021.
Especially for Debian users it is of particular interest that Bullseye
is almost »frozen« – however, the upcoming release of manpages-l10n is
probably not the final version which gets into Bullseye, but maybe
*now* it would be time to shift personal priorities and point to that
new Debian version, regarding translation efforts.
Have a look at the status pages [1]. There you see some (or even lots
of) .po files marked in red. In many cases, there are only a few
Gettext messages to translate to reach the 80% threshold. This needs
Po4a to create the translated man page. Even if you don't complete the
translation, you make sure that this man page is available for users –
admittedly, still with some English parts, but it is present.
The Git infrastructure is already prepared for including two new
languages into the tarball: Italian and Spanish. Because the current
man-pages-it package in Mageia is v4.08, we will jump from 4.2 to 4.9
to get a proper upgrade path. Note, the Spanish part of manpages-l10n
brings Spanish man pages back to Debian, but will *not* replace the
manpages-es-extra package for the time being. After our v4.9 has been
released, I will start with importing the files from
manpages-es-extra.
Happy translating!
[1] https://manpages-l10n-team.pages.debian.net/manpages-l10n/index.html
Best Regards,
Mario
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