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

[David Prévot]

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Hi,

Le 13/07/2010 18:23, Roger Leigh a écrit :
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:00:03PM +0200, Thomas Blein wrote:

>> [...] 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.

I would be happy to try and propose a patch to do so (I must admit
I never did such thing yet, but I already proposed Thomas to give
it a try).

> Currently the documentation is all in manual page format with some
> GNU troff extensions; can po4a cope with this?

Sure, it is presented as such in po4a(7). Some native packages
already provide a way to do so (for example adduser), and some not
native packages too (for example man-db). Some quality advices are
probably available in "Internationalisation and localisation in
Debian" [1] too.

[1] http://people.debian.org/~jfs/debconf6/html/x790.html#AEN797

> In particular, all
> the nice formatting you get in the PDF documentation ("make pdf") is
> something I'd like to preserve.

Since it seems to be created directly from the manual page (that
shouldn't be modified in the process), the only change I can
think of will be the ability to provides such document in foreign
languages.

Cheers

David

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