Hello Al, Am Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 01:48:44PM +0200 schrieb Al Ma: > Thank you for the explanation. I won't reopen the report. The translation > issue itself is not urgent, but it has to be dealt with. I'm cc'ing an > e-mailing address I found.
Thanks for notifying me (maintainer of manpages-l10n).
> Am 06.04.26 um 11:45 schrieb Georges Khaznadar:
> > Al Ma a écrit :
> > > ...
> > > Also the translations of the manpage of crontab should be adapted. As of
> > > this moment, though the English (LANG=en_US.utf8) manpage mentions the
> > > limitation of 998 characters, the German (LANG=de_DE.utf8) manpage does
> > > not.
Yes, because the man pages is maintaned externally, not within the
(upstream / Debian) package, and hence outside their control.
> > I agree with you about translations not yet done in the various
> > languages which Debian supports. However reopening the bug against cron
> > package is not the right way to reach translators.
Correct.
> > Translation teams have watch tools which detect changes in packages'
> > manpages when they are released, so their members can pick the
> > translation tasks and do them timely. Opening or closing bugs
> > regarding one package has no effect on that: only changes done in
> > released manpages do matter.
Correct as well, except for man pages it works slightly more
elaborate.
> > If you want urgently to find a manpage translated in your language,
> > and find that it lags behind the version currently existing in
> > debian/testing, please kindly tell it to the relevant language team,
> > and also please attach a translation if you can afford it.
Well, kind of (see below).
There are two type of packages, those that maintain their translations
themselves (where you can discuss this with the upstream maintainer)
and those (like this one) which do not, i.e. it is for most languages
handled by mapnages-l10n[1].
Once a month manpages-l10n downloads all current man pages from
several common distributions, Debian (Unstable) is one of those. Then
translators (working for manpages-l10n) see these changes, e.g. for
Russian the current list of unfinished translations can be found in
[2].
Then the translators decide which updates they want to perform. Here
you might contact translators with requests or updates.
Alternatively, you can also file merge requests / issues directly at
our git repository[3], however, I strongly prefer the former route.
Every three month, a new version is released, which is quickly
packaged for Debian Unstable (and backports).
The last release (and upstream sync) has just happened *before* this
issue was closed, i.e. the update is currently not present in our
repository. It will be visible for the translators at around
2026-05-01 and the next release is planned for 2026-06-27.
If you have any questions or if you want to get invovled, do not
hesitate to contact me (but drop the bug / Georges for this).
Greetings
Helge
[1] There are exceptions, see
https://manpages-l10n-team.pages.debian.net/manpages-l10n/
[2]
https://manpages-l10n-team.pages.debian.net/manpages-l10n/debian-unstable-ru.html
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/manpages-l10n-team/manpages-l10n
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