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

[David Prévot]

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Le 13/07/2010 18:23, Roger Leigh a écrit :
> 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?

Actually, a tiny problem in the Locale::Po4a::Man module don't permit it
for the moment, but a patch is already on it's way [1]. Once po4a
updated, I will be happy to provide a patch in order to permit manual
pages translation.

[1]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/po4a-devel/2010-July/001850.html

Anyway, in order to make translators life easier, Denis Barbier, in the
pointed message [1], proposed another version of schroot.1.in [2], fully
compatible with the actual one (as far as I tried the manual pages and
pdf generation, it provides exactly the same result). I fully agree with
him : PO files are much more understandable this way (and sources too I
think), so I ask you to consider similar changes into other manual pages.

[2]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/po4a-devel/attachments/20100719/8962358d/attachment-0001.obj

Cheers

David

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