Bug#1009915: sysvinit: Please align with manpages-l10n and afterwards activate man page translations
Helge Kreutzmann
debian at helgefjell.de
Wed Apr 27 16:40:17 BST 2022
Hello Mark,
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:20:47AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 08:39:44PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > I did not yet check the details, I just had a quick look. I can check
> > more in detail in the weekend.
>
> A quick experiment with po4a suggests that running
>
> po4a po4a.cfg
>
> in man/po does build the translated manpages.
>
> However, there is no makefile rule for that build or subsequent installation
> (which is bizarrely handled in src/Makefile!).
>
> That seems something to deal with upstream. Helge, could you liaise with Jesse
> to complete that?
I'm not a makefile expert, but I have some experience with po4a and
firends (in makefiles). I'll contact Jesse and see what I (or maybe
Mario, who supported the transfer) can do.
Thanks for checking the state of the files.
Greetings
Helge
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