[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#300268: /usr/share/man/man5/passwd.5.gz contains inaccurate information

Martin Quinson martin.quinson@loria.fr
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:54:36 +0100


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On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:40:13AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
>=20
> I'd like to promote this to upstream (Thomas) for all man pages
> translation handling.=20
>=20
> This makes use of the po4a utility which helps in creating man pages
> from PO files back and forth. The advantage for translators is working
> on the well-known PO files, with correct handling of upstream changes
> and a far easier maintenance.
>=20
> po4a is hosted on http://po4a.alioth.debian.org
>=20
> This is not Debian-specific so I think it could be quite easily
> included in upstream sources. The target is having manual pages
> translations handled only as PO files and the real man pages generated
> in the build process (which means calling po4a in Makefiles).

Christian forgot to say that po4a is a team work, and that both me and
Nicolas are part of this team. So, we know it rather well and could probably
work out any issue arising.


Thanks, Mt.

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