Bug#261654: spanish manpages updated to apt 0.6.38 in xml format (full patch included)

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

> I have half of the solution. I use now the makefiles provided to build apt. The
> new makefile is simpler (it is attached).
> 
> I have modified xml_manpage.mak properly to change the extension of the generated
> manpages. 
> 
> We should move the english manpages to their own dir 
> and add them the suffix "en" for simplicity and symmetry.
> 
> With this we will be able to build english, spanish and french manpages
> with almost the same makefile.
> 
> If you like it I can send the patches.


Actually, these design issues have to be decided by either Matt,
Michael, or other APT-involved people.

I talk to Matt yesterday about the APT manpages. Plans should be to
move them to PO files : keep the English man pages as XML files and
use PO for man pages translations. 

There is such work going on for dpkg : I stillm have to talk with
Scott about it and then we will be able to have a look at APT and
convert the man page translation process to use PO, with the help of
po4a which can handle gettext format for both roff man pages and xml
files.

So, actually, I think that it might be a good idea to "forget" about
man pages updates....and especially changing the man pages build
process now.