[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#588962: Bug#588962: schroot: Please provide documentation as po4a for translation

Roger Leigh rleigh at codelibre.net
Tue Jul 13 22:23:11 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:00:03PM +0200, Thomas Blein wrote:
> I am currently taking care of the French translation of the schroot debconf 
> messages. I saw that the documentation of the schroot package is not translated
> in any language. I would like to translate it French. For this, there is a 
> need to change the source organisation so the documentation use po4a to
> allow us to translate it. 
> 
> I would like to know if such changes could be me made.

I'd be happy to make this sort of change, or accept patches to do this.
Currently the documentation is all in manual page format with some
GNU troff extensions; can po4a cope with this?  In particular, all
the nice formatting you get in the PDF documentation ("make pdf") is
something I'd like to preserve.

  https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30471/4113/schroot.pdf


Regards,
Roger

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