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

Tomasz K³oczko kloczek@zie.pg.gda.pl
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:36:15 +0100


Dnia 20-03-2005, nie o godzinie 09:54 +0100, Martin Quinson napisał(a):
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:40:13AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > 
> > I'd like to promote this to upstream (Thomas) for all man pages
> > translation handling. 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > po4a is hosted on http://po4a.alioth.debian.org
> > 
> > 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.

I want only inform: on CVS shadow source tree I'm not interested using
po4a.
I plan convert all shadow man pages documentation to XML (this is much
more commont format for documentation) and prepare translation framework
basing on this source form. Probably will be used gnome-doc-utils (or
something similar).

kloczek
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