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

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Nicolas,
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 11:15:51PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> Helge (or any other German translator), if you update the attached passwd.1.po
> PO file, then Tomasz will be able to initialize a PO based translation for
> the German pages.

I put the original translator Simon Brandmair in the loop. Simon, are
you working / intend on working on an update?

> I will have a look at the other pages (I need to find the English page
> that match the German translations first) this week-end.

Is there a generic place for man page translation in Debian? I ask,
because the current german man pages are a collection of different
quality, different sources of information, some even not an
translation but a (shorter) rewrite. So in the mid-term it would be
nice, if all man pages are in a format which makes updates easy (like
po). Even man pages I translated are probably out of date, as I read
in the changelog "updated man page" but get no notification or diffs
to update the translation also. If there is such a central place, I'd
like to commit the man pages I wrote or translated there as well.

Also is there some document which describes the change to po? As I
understood in this discussion, there are two po formats (po4a and
xmlpo or similar) in the loop? I'd prefer to work with sgml/xml if
possible (thats how I write my (translated) man pages as well).

> The attached PO file is far from perfect, but it should be useful for
> starting the translation.

First I'd like to hear Simons opinion. If he's out of time I can see
if I can find some time to update the file.

Greetings

        Helge

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