> That not the issue either. The issue is that some of the _original_ 
> manpages are not up-to-date and poorly written. Whatever process we use,
> the translations are not going to be up-to-date either, and probably
> full of mistake because the original was unclear.

As far as I know from po4a (Nicolas will correct if needed), the
strings in these manpages will anyway be marked as fuzzy, so that
translators have to review them. Nicolas, do you confirm?

> 
> > Using po4a guarantees that the translated manpage remains up-to-date
> > because changed strings fuzzy the translations and are not used. This
> > may result in a translated manpage which is a mix of English and
> > another language....which you can decide not shipping with your
> > package with a special case of the build system.
> > 
> > 
> > So, again, are you completely ruling out po4a in either the package
> > build system or the "upstream" tarballs build system?
> 
> No, I am not.


OK, that makes all this clearer for me. Sorry for having been a little
bit "heavy" as we all say in French...:)

(surrealistic discussion we have among 3 French-speaking
people...:-)))




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