Bug#1009915: sysvinit: Please align with manpages-l10n and afterwards activate man page translations
Jesse Smith
jessefrgsmith at yahoo.ca
Sun May 1 20:16:33 BST 2022
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> The attached Makefile for man/ does not yet work, but I think it's just my
> limited man page knowledge.
Thank you for putting this together. I'm applying upstream to our 3.05
branch.
>
> For some reason I'm not seeing the solution for "make clean", probably
> some typo.
The issue seemed to be that the LANGUAGES variable was quoted. This
results in unexpected behaviour from the for loop. Removing the quotes
fixed the issue and the "make clean" target now works.
>
> I added a new target to actually create the translated man pages. For
> testing, I inserted a dummy version, please remove.
Will do.
> What I'm not so sure is how to best call "translated", probably as a
> dependency for "all install"?
>
I think this makes sense. I'll add this change.
> I suggest you use this Makefile as an input and then we work from
> there.
Agreed. This is now in the SysV repository.
- Jesse
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