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

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Mark,
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 09:11:46AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 08:39:44PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > That is an interesting idea. Than I wait for your analysis, thanks.
> 
> I have just compared the manpage lists in sysvinit, manpages-l10n and
> systemd. AFAICS the duplicates are the 7 in systemd-sysv:
> 
>   init.1
>   halt.8
>   poweroff.8
>   reboot.8
>   runlevel.8
>   shutdown.8
>   telinit.8
> 
> src:sysvinit has manpage translations for 7 languages: de es fi fr hu id pl.
> 
> That seems a manageable number to handle through dpkg-divert.

Thanks for the analysis, this is roughly what I've expected. 

Looking at the example section of dpkg-divert(1) I assume that
you will issue the appropriate calls to dpkg-divert in sysvinit
maintainer scripts and that I (on the manpage-l10n side) do not have
to use any special handling, correct?

Greetings

           Helge


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