Bug#1009915: sysvinit: Please align with manpages-l10n and afterwards activate man page translations

[Mark Hindley]

Helge,

Thanks. I was expecting this after  #1001908 and your contribution to sysvinit
upstream.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 05:45:47PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> For the benefit of Sysvinit using Debian users, it would be great if
> you could enable the translations of the man pages during package
> build;

I have had a quick look and I think the upstream support for this is still
incomplete. Shouldn't there be a rule for building translated manpages in
man/Makefile?

> My request:
> ===========
> The only solution I can imagine is the Alternatives system, so we
> identify which man pages conflict and both manpages-l10n and sysvinit
> establish alternatives for those translations.

The other possibility might be dpkg-diverts. Perhaps that depends on how many
conflicts there actually are/will be. I will try to quantify that more
accurately.

Best wishes

Mark