Hello John, On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 08:23:43AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Fri, 2024-05-31 at 16:23 +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > Ausweisapp is mostly for German speaking users. > > That's not quite accurate. Even foreigners can use it when they get an > eID [1] which they can apply for when they have a residence permit. You > can be a user of this app without speaking German.
Yes, but I'm rather confiden that this is a minority.
> > It contains a man page, but this man page is provided in English only.
>
> The manpage was contributed by a Debian Developer which probably explains
> this.
Yes, this was not meant as an offence, on the contrary, I quite
appreciate the existance of the man page.
> > However, translated man pages are provided in manpages-l10n.
> > Especially the German translation would be helpful for this package,
> > hence I propose to "suggest" it.
>
> Since I assume you have provided that manpage, have you considered sending
> it upstream? They are usually very happy to take patches.
Well, do you really think it is a good idea? Especially since …
> > (Currently, there is also a Romanian and Danish translation available,
> > but I doubt there are very relevan for Ausweisapp users)
>
> Again, it's a common misconception that AusweisApp is exclusive to Germans
> with a personal ID. Foreigners can use it with an eID which is why the app
> itself is also translated into different languages.
… you state that further translations are sensible.
In this case, upstream would need to maintain the translation
infrastructure (po4a) but also attract and maintain the translators.
And I've strong reasons to believe this won't be the focus of their work.
Thus, especially for such a leaf package like AusweisApp2 it is
sensible to maintain it in the manpage-l10n pool and suggest the
manpages-de package so the translation becomes available.
In the end, this is a wishlist bug for a "Suggest: manpages-de".
Greetings
Helge
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