Bug#378899: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#378899: passwd: [Intl:de] German man page out of sync

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Christian,
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 10:07:26PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Helge Kreutzmann (helge at helgefjell.de):
> > Package: passwd
> > Version: 1:4.0.16-2
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: l10n
> > 
> > The german man page for passwd is out of sync, most notably regarding
> > the options (but I like the german layout much more in the synopsis),
> > e.g. -f, -g, -s are mentioned in the german version, but not in the
> > english original (and looking at passwd --help, they are not supported
> > either[1]).
> 
> 
> Actually, it would be Good if some german translator works on
> translating the German man page with PO.

Sorry, do you mean update the german man page? In what sense should
the german version be translated? Or s/translate/maintain/ ?

> This would first need that our great specialist of po4a (Nicolas
> François) generates the PO file from the existing man pages
> translations....Nicolas? :-)

Please correct me if I'm wrong, the procedure is now as follows:
a) The english man page and all available translations are transformed
   via po4a into po-files
b) Some "smart" algorithm tries to align the original and translations
   and marks all (?) strings fuzzy
c) Translators are asked to check their respective po-file

Is this correct?

Greetings

          Helge

P.S. The english man page is correct, i.e. the -f flag and friends are
not available in Debian?

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