Hi Helge, On Mon, 2026-10-19 at 08:21 +0000, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > 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.
Basically every foreigner living in Germany is eligible for using an eID, so about 15 million people. I wouldn't call them a minority. The idea of the eID is to enable citizens in Germany deal with authorities online instead of having to go to a local government office. Hence, the eID and AusweisApp is useful to everyone living in Germany, not just Germans. > > > 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 … Let's see what Andre Klitzing (CC'ed) says. He is one of the upstream developers. > > > (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. Well, the app itself is officially provided in several languages, so I'm not seeing why they also shouldn't maintain manpages in these languages if the community provided the,. > 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. Technically, it's a leaf package but that doesn't mean it's not important. It's the official package you need for electronic government services in Germany. So, it's not really irrelevant. > In the end, this is a wishlist bug for a "Suggest: manpages-de". Sure, but I always prefer sending improvements upstream so that all distributions can profit from them rather then confining them to Debian. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
